How To Install WordPress Themes

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Looking to install a WordPress theme? You must have heard about tons of available paid and free WordPress themes. As you have decided or planning to make your Career As A Blogger, you may want to try out a new theme on your blog until you find the right one that meet your needs. In this tutorial, I will provide you detailed step by step instructions on how you can install a theme in your WordPress Blog.

Step by step guide on How to install WordPress themes
How ro install WordPress themes

WordPress theme can be installed in 3 ways:

1. Search and Install
2. Upload and Install
3. FTP

Install Latest WordPress before Installing A WordPress Theme

Premium themes are powerful and make use of all the latest WordPress functions to ensure the coding of the themes are as best as possible with highly killing customization & optimization features, make sure you have the latest version on WordPress before you apply a new theme.

Search and Install

This is probably an easiest way to install a new theme on your WP blog. Login to your WP dashboard, go to appearance>Themes. Once you are on the theme page, click on Add New button at the top.

On the next screen you will see some options like featured, popular and latest, you can search for a theme with specific feature by clicking on feature filter, or you can search the theme in the search bar. In the search bar, you just need to key in the name of the theme you want to install.

Feature filter allows you to search for a theme with specific features. Below image is for your reference:

WordPress themes installation

Based on your search criteria, you will see a single theme of a list of themes that match your criteria. When you see the theme you want to install, hover your mouse on the theme to reveal preview, install and detail option. It is a good practice to read the details of the theme you are about to install. Then check out its preview. If this is how you want your blog to look  go ahead and Install it. Once it is installed, Click on Activate button, and you have successfully installed and activated your WP theme.

Upload and Install

You have learned how to search and install a WordPress theme from WordPress dashboard. You search a theme and install. Pretty easy? Yes it is. However the first method- Search and Install method only allows to free themes that are on WordPress repository.

Once i have seen an amazingly customized, light weight and eye catchy theme. I wanted to get that right way. I went to my WP Dashboard>Appearance>Themes. I searched everything but didn't find it. So I went back and did start a research on it why i didn't find the theme in WP Dashboard. Later on I found that most of the commercial premium themes aren't accessible from Dashboard. So how I an gonna get that now. Since this was a paid premium theme so I went ahead, purchased it and I got a .zip file.

What next now? I need to install it on my blog.

Go to Dashboard>Appearance>Themes>Add New>Upload Theme. Click on Choose File and then Key in the location where you have your downloaded theme(.zip file) is located and click on Install Now.



Important : A common error a lot of people come across while installing a new theme is that "the theme is missing style.css and can't be installed." This pop up error indicates that downloaded zip file is corrupted and doesn't have style.css file in it. So go and download a valid theme file and verify that it has a style.css file.

Once your theme is installed, you will see a success message along with the link to preview and activate it as shown in below image:



Depending upon the theme, it may add additional setting option that you need to configure.

Note: Theme upload functionality in only available for self-hosted worpress.org users. You won't see add themes option if you are using free WordPress.com. free WordPress.com has its limitations that's why it doesn't allow us to upload themes. In order to use theme upload feature your blog has to be self-hosted (free WordPress.com vs self-hosted WordPress.org). If you are using free wordpress.com and want to switch to self-hosted WordPress, you should read : how to migrate from free WordPress.com to self-hosted WordPress.org

Hosting companies you should check : 

Bluehost
Hostgator

These two companies are the giant in hosting industry. Choose any of them and start your blog today.

FTP Method To Install Wordpress Theme

You are still in high school if you don't know how to use ftp to install a wp theme. If automatic installation fails, or you have decided to go for a premium theme that isn't available in WordPress repository, you will need to use this alternative route to install your theme.

You need to know several details about your ftp server and hosting account like: 

  • Domain name/server address
  • Hosting/server user name
  • Hosting/server password
  • Port Number of your server.
  • Location of your WordPress installation inside the hosting account (usually into the public_html folder)

Then you need a ftp client. Filezilla is an open source program available for multiple platforms and does a good job. Remember, this is not for beginners because it is little bit more advanced.

Assuming that you have downloaded a premium theme you want to install. It will be in a  .zip  file format. Extract the theme file as you will have to upload extracted files only. Make sure that your theme package contains style.css

Open FileZilla. Login with your server address, host name and password. Then key in the port number. After you key in all the information, click on quick connect, and it will connect to your host. Once you are connected to your host, go to the path  /wp-content/themes/  and upload all the theme extracted files. Once you have uploaded the theme go back to wp Admin panel>Appearance>Themes

The theme you just uploaded should be listed here. Hover your mouse on top of that theme and click on activate. Now you can start customizing it for your needs and then you can show off a brand new look to your blog readers.

Since you have learned how to install WordPress theme you should also check out the 3 different ways to install WordPress plugins.


If you a complete beginner and want to setup a WordPress blog, read an exclusive WordPress guide for beginners

Since there is high popularity of themes hence developing WordPress themes has become an attractive profession. Hundreds of new WordPress themes are released every month. But unfortunately not all of them are well coded, doesn't follow coding best practices and coded professionally.

A theme that is not well coded can impact in your blog's performance significantly. Therefore, before you install any WordPress theme, take some time to read the documentation of the theme, reviews and ratings etc.  Always install a theme from trusted sources. When I say trusted sources I mean to say reputed and reliable developers only. Check if they provide good tech support too.

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Google Adsense HeatMap : Best Adsense Placement Guide

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Google Adsense heatmap : best Google Adsense placement guide
Google Adsense HeatMap
It is always exciting to increase Adsense ads performance but also consider the user experience and Google Adsense policies when placing Adsense ads on your blog. As we know that Google Adsense is a pay per click (PPC) program and ads are shown basis the keywords which play a vital role for an ad to show up on your blog. When we talk about how to increase Adsense earning, Adsense HeatMap comes in our mind.

Without a doubt, Google Adsense is the best PPC program to monetize your blog which allows you different ad size to insert in your blog and also offers high CPC for each click.

But what is the benefit of different ad size and high CPC rate when visitors don't click on your ads. Nothing.

Google Adsense is the best way for the bloggers to make money online from the blogs and websites by placing ads but the problem is to find out the best place to place the Adsense ads. Prime focus of any blogger should be on the quality content and keep the user experience. Do not put ads in the middle of the post because it looks annoying. Google panda updates made it clear to have less ads around  content and above the fold.

It's always the game of placing the right ad at the right spot. Ad placement is quite tricky but playing smart by placing your adverts with little tricks can help you to achieve the best results but keep the user experience in mind. Even you can double your Adsense income.

Google Adsense heat map Image
How to use Google Adsense heatmap- official
Google Adsense heatmap- official
This is an exclusive guide which might help you to increase your Adsense earning. Have a look at the official Google Adsense heat map which clearly talks about the best Adsense placement without annoying users.

While using Adsense ads on your blog do you think of following points:
Why your readers are here?
Which is more important for you- content or advertisements
Where to display ads without compromising user experience.

Placing Adsense ads at right place and at the same time concentrate on the quality of the post that you write can potentially lead to increase your Adsense earning.

Here are some tips and ideas to best advertisement placement :

Before we move ahead, have a look at the maximum number of allowed Adsense ad units on a web page.

Ads above the fold yield the best results and it is a strong recommendation by Google. Be specific about keywords to have a high paying ads on your blog.

Note : Text ads before the post have better CTR as compared to image ads.

So far we were considering the user experience but if your prime focus is to make money online by Google adverts, you can place link ads between the content. You can also use Google search ads at the best possible and visible place on your website to increase your Adsense earning.

There are few other places to place Adsense ads :

Sidebar banner
Above the post
Below the post

I would suggest you to play smart while placing advertisements without downgrading your users experience and instead if keeping empty space on your website, it is an good idea to utilize that space by placing ads.

Learn how to use Google Adsense : The best advertising program for your blog to make money online

You can also use Google Adsense alternatives to make money online.

Fruitful read : Is it possible to make money online without Google Adsense?

Do you use Adsense heat map? What is the best ad placement on your blog? 

Google Adsense Account Approval Process(New)

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This is the new process that Google follows to approve Adsense Applications (Year 2015)

How google approve Adsense applications (new process)
Adsense application approval (new process)

Google Adsense has recently introduced a new application verification process for publishers. Google Adsense has become the industry standard when it comes to displaying contextual ads on your blog. No doubt Adsense is the best and most popular monetizing program for bloggers.  Until now Google Adsense approval process was simple and easy : you create an Adsense account, submit your application, Adsense team reviews it and accept you in the AdSense program, and then you implement ads to monetize your blog. Pretty simple? Yes, It was.

But now Google has changed the procedure to review new Adsense application. Earlier it was a one step verification process but now Google has decided to approve an AdSense account in 2 steps.

#1. Create an account>submit your application>Adsense team will review your application and partially approve your AdSense application. Adsense team will notify you about this approval.
In this step, Google Adsense teams do some initial checks on your blog and information provided in the application.

#2. Once your Adsense application passes the initial stage, Adsense team will grant you access to your Adsense account. Login to Adsense account. Go to my ads. Here you will get many options to customize the look of ad.  Customize it as per your preference, click on get code. Copy this code and paste at where you want to see it on your blog.

Please remember this is not the final approval. Once you have implement these ads code in your blog and these will be showing as blank and will blend with the background of your blog. You can place upto 3 ads on one page hence don't just bombard your blog with lots of ads. You won't be paid for any click on these ads until your Adsense account passes the second review. Now again Google Adsense team will review your blog and ads placed. The only purpose to conduct the second review is to ensure that your blog meets certain requirements to successfully run Adsense ads on your blog. If your blog meets the AdSense standard, Adsense team will approve your application. This is the final stage of approval. Now your Adsense account is approved and ads will show up on your blog. You will get a second email from AdSense team conforming the same.

Note: Until your Adsense application doesn't pass second review, you however, will be able to login to Adsense account but it will show a message saying " your account is under review."

UPDATE: Once you apply for an Adsense account, you get an instant access to your Adsense account. Adsense account sometimes doesn't show any status - "under review", So Don't panic. Just put some ads code and wait for Adsense team to review. Upon final review review you will get an approval email.

Don't put too many ads on a single web page.  Read-- How many Adsense ads are allowed on a single web page.

Google is becoming strict day by day and that is why they have changed the Google Adsense approval process. This new Adsense approval process takes more time to approve AdSense application as approval is split in two steps now.

New Process of AdSense approval:

Sign up for Adsense account(Google Adsense sign up page)
Provide information about you(name, address, phone#) and the blog's URL which you want to monetize.

Within 1- 2 days AdSense team will review you application. If it looks good to them, you will pass the first review. Adsense team will communicate you the same via email.

Upon first approval you will automatically get access to your AdSense account. Login to AdSense account. Click on my ads to create a new ad (I am not getting into detail here as all the steps involved to create and customize a new ad are self explanatory)
Google Adsense dashboard
Adsense Dashboard


My ads in adsense dashboard

Paste the ad codes on your blog. As per Google you should not use more than 3 ads on a web page so be careful. These ads will not show up on your your blog and will blend with the blog background. Now Adsense team will initiate the second/final review. It mat take about a week. You're lucky if you get it before. After the final approval you will get a confirmation email.

Why google adsense is the best advertising program for your blog


After the final approval confirmation, ads you had placed on your blog will be visible. When somebody clicks on those ads, you will get paid some amount depending on advertiser. Google Adsense pays only for a valid click. Don't try to encourage people to click on your ads against their wish. As I told you before that Google is very particular and strict. If Google finds any activity in your Adsense account which is violating the TOS,  your Adsense account will be disabled immediately and banned permanently if you don't acknowledge the Google's TOS. All your earning will be forfeited. So i suggest you don't do anything which is against Google's policies.

Once your AdSense earning will reach $10,  Adsense team will mail you a PIN to your address provided by you at the time of applying for AdSense.

You need to enter the PIN in your Adsense account to complete the last step. Google sends you a PIN to make sure that you are the real identity. Congratulation you have complete all the steps. Once your Adsense earning reaches $100, Google will send you check or wire you your earning. Most of time, it takes hell lot of time for a check to reach you (depending upon geographical location), I recommend you to enable direct bank transfer for your Adsense earning.

Is your Google added account rejected? Don't worry. There are many ways to monetize your blog. There are many Adsense alternatives you can use to make money from your blog.

You should create a blog today to start earning money.

Read : Ultimate WordPress Guide for complete beginners

Have you applied for Adsense recently? How was your experience with the new Google AdSense approval process?

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How To Create A Free Blog On The Blogspot Blogging Platform

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Create a free blog on blogspot blogging platform
Create a Free Blog on Blogspot
Having a Blog is a great way to put your thought before the world, thoughts that you like about something. Blogging is a decent profession if you are wise enough to take a pen and paper and start writing.  You can also monetize your blogspot blog by integrating it with Adsense. Read my exclusive post on Google Adsense Guide.

There are number of blogging platforms to create a free blog for yourself. Blogspot is one of them. Blogspot blogging platform is provided and managed by Google. Blogspot has some limitations too but it is a great start for newbies who don't want to make an initial investment for domain name and web hosting. I have already covered up a detailed post on Web Hosting.  My personal choice for blogging is WordPress with your domain and Web Hosting. Why? The reason is self-hosted WordPress blogs are more powerful in terms of functionality, customization and provide complete control on your blog. Read : Blogspot or WordPress- "Which blogging platform to use?" To understand the major differences, and to know which blogging platform suits you best?

I get emails throwing questions at me like - How can i monetize my blog?, How to make money online with my blog,  Which is the best advertising network for a blog to make money online?  What does this mean? These questions cleverly tell us that majority of people (almost everybody except few) are looking and trying to make money from their blogs or websites. Since Self-hosted WordPress blog has a cost attached for buying the domain name and Web Hosting hence I would recommend newbies to start creating a free blog on blogspot blogging platform to take the experience and then advance & become more professional blogger with your self-hosted wordpress blog. This way you won't have to pay anything and later on you can migrate from BlogSpot to Self-Hosted WordPress.

BlogSpot offers basic features to create a free blog. As I mentioned, it is a good way to learn and start blogging as a career.

I remember the time when I started blogging for the first time. It was my passion. Now its more than a passions. It was a new concept for me with less knowledge and limited money in pocket to spend on domain and web hosting. I had a tough time setting up my free blog on blogspot.com. So I have written this DIY Guide on how to set up a free blog on blogpost blogging platform. This post will help you get started with your free blogspot blog.

Before I start with this tutorial, there are couple of things you should be aware of :
BlogSpot is an online blogging service owned by Google. It offers you to create a free blog on Google server. Since your blog is hosted on Google server hence all of your blog photos are hosted on Picassa, which is an another service by Google. So blogspot is completely Google centric platform and gives you no control on your blogspot blog.

If you want to create a professional blog with an aim to make money online, then this free blogging platform is not for you. Click here to know why? I would rather recommend you to create a blog using WordPress. It is easy to set up a WordPress blog. With the help of our free Exclusive WordPress Guide For Beginners by BlogByGeeks, you will set up your WordPress Blog in Just 10 Minutes.

Step by Step DIY Guide to create Your blog on Blogspot 

#1. Creating a free blogspot blog

Head over to blogger sign up page and login with your Google account. A Google account can be non gmail. That means you can login to blogger with non gmail id as well. If you don't have one, create one to use blogger. Click on Create a New Blog. Name you Blog now as shown in the screenshot. If your blog name is taken by someone, think of a new blog name.
Note: You should select a blog name that can later brand your custom domain.
Blogger--Create a new blogspot blog free

Now its time to choose a theme for your blogspot blog(you can change it later)

Click on create blog! button and your blog is created.

#2. Blog theme customization

You should change your blog's default template because it is generic and doesn't look nice. Now its time to apply a cool theme on your blog. Just Google it to find a good responsive theme for your blog niche. Download and extract it. You need to upload .XML file to your blog.

Go to your blogger dashboard--Template--Backup/Restore--select your template(.xml file)

I have listed 5 Best SEO optimized responsive blogger templates that you can download and install on your blog.
Blogger--Upload a new template

Click on Upload and Done.

Now your blog is ready but wait, you aren't done yet. You need to start posting your content. I recommend you to create few pages such as About, Privacy Policy etc. About page should describe your brief info and what your blog is all about. Similarly Contact page contains the email Id of the blog owner etc. About page is important from readers perspective as they get to know about you and your blog.


Blogger- Dashboard- customization

Go to Layout and make necessary changes or addition. You should also add a cool logo and favicon. You can add widgets too. These things are self explanatory hence I am not getting into deep here.


Monetize your blog with Google Adsense

Once you have a few blog posts up and running, you can go to settings--Earnings--and enable Adsense. This way you can also earn money from your free BlogSpot blog.  Learn how you can sign up for an Adsense account.

Sign up for Adsense Blogger

Your blog is almost ready, and you can start writing posts. Once you have signed up doe Adsense, Adsense team will review your application and if everything ia as per their expectations, they will approve your Adsense application. You should have atleast 10 quality posts to qualify for Adsense program.

Read: Google Adsense approval process (New)

This post is for everyone who doesn't have a blog and wants to start a blogging journey.  Blogspot blog doesn't cost a dime but not for serious and professional blogging. If you want to take a more professional platform for blogging, you can head on to my WordPress Guide for beginners.

There is always a discussion about Blogger vs WordPress. Click here to read which is better and why?

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Why Google Adsense is The Best Advertising Program to monetize Your Blog

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The purpose of this post is to tell you the importance of Google AdSense advertising program on your blog and the benefits it serve. I am assuming that you have good understanding about Google Adsense. Before I start to tell you why majority of the bloggers (all the bloggers, in fact) are crazy about Google Adsense- The Best Advertising Program for Blog,  I would suggest you to read
Step by Step Adsense Guide for Beginners to taste a flavor of Adsense.

Why Google Adsense is the best advertising program
Why Adsense is the best ad program for your blog

Why Google Adsense is the Best Advertising Program (believe me which you shouldn't) for your Blog?

There are too many obvious reasons to choose Google Adsense over any other ad network like Chitika, Infolinks, RevenueHits and many more. Adsense is completely owned and managed by Google. No doubt Google AdSense the best online advertising program for your blog. Google Adsense is an incredible way to earn money from advertising on your blog. Google Adsense is a contextual ad network which means ads will be displayed according to the content you have on your blog. There are many other ad programs such as Infolinks, Bidvertiser(never use it), Chitika, Clicksense and many more but not effective as Google Adsense. Obviously we can't bombard all these ad networks on our blog hence we should look for the best and most effective online money making advertisement program for our blog and Google Adsense is the only answer.
Google Adsense alternatives you should never use.

I have listed and explained precisely the Benefits of using Google Adsense advertising program. It gives you the answer to why Google Adsense is the best advertising program for your blog.

Google doesn't need any introduction. Since Adsense is an effective advertising program that actually works and Adsense is being owned and run solely by Google itself hence it is a legitimate advertisement program for your blog that we you trust on.

Here are the 7 benefits that Google Adsense provides for your blog. After reading the benefits of Adsense, you can say (like everybody says) that Google Adsense is the best and most popular online money making contextual Ad network to monetize your blog. Many bloggers are making decent money from Google Adsense.


Adsense Benefit#1. Easy to set up

Once your Adsense account application is fully approved, you just need to login to your Adsense account, go to my ads>Customise ad format you want to show on your blog>Paste the ad code in your WordPress theme file or blogger template.  Once you add a ad code in your blog, advertisements will be activated and started running on your blog.

Not sure how to get an Adsense account. Here is the complete guide on How to sign up for an Adsense account

Adsense Benefit#2. Best pay-per-click with high CPC

Google Adsense is a pay per click (PPC) ad program. Whenever somebody lands on your blog and click on Adsense ads, you earn some money. This paid amount is not fixed and may vary from advertiser to advertiser. Pay per click amount is what an advertiser is paying to Google in order to show there ads on Google search engine. Google keeps some share from this amount and rest is paid to you for the valid click made by a visitor in your blog. Remember not to click on your own or don't tell your friend to click on the ads as this is a voilation of Adsense TOS and this may lead to instant disable your Adsense account. Adsense offers maximum pay per click as compared to other ad networks and that is why Google Adsense is the best advertising program fir your blog.

Adsense Benefit#3. Effective Contextual ad network

As you already know that Google Adsense is a contextual ad network which means ads will be displayed according to the content of your blog. If your blog is about traveling, you will more likely to see ads related to hotel booking, air booking etc. Similarly if you write about How to start a WordPress Blog, you are more likely see best WordPress hosting or domain ads.

Adsense Benefits#4. Targeted ads help to achieve better CTR

Adsense ensures to display targeted ads and thus you get more clicks and better CTR.

Adsense Benefit#5. One account for all.

One account for all. If your Google Adsense account is approved, you can monetize all of your blogs till the time you don't violate Adsense TOS. You don't need to get your every blog reviewed and approved. Rule for one is rule for all. But with most of other ad networks, you need to add your blog/s manually, and upon approval of each individual blog, you can place ads on that blog.

Adsense Benefit#6. Helpa to raise your Blogging standard

As we know that Google Adsense is the best advertising program to earn money via blogging by placing ads on your blog. Since Adsense is very strict about their policies and TOS hence it is not easy to get into Adsense program. Adsense has set some high standard and your Adsense account will be approved if and only if your blog meets those standard. If you get your Adsense account fully approved, it means your blog is authorized fo monetization.

Adsense Benefit#7. Trusted source to earn money.

The major problem you will or might face with small advertising companies is issue of payment. Even if you have exceed the minimum payout threshold, you may have difficulty getting your payment. Do some research and you will come across with the thing that most of these advertising companies are making people fool and doesn't release the payment (in most cases). Also some of these advertising companies have malicious codes in their advertisement script or they have low quality ads that you place in your blog template/theme. Blogs with these scripts are flagged by Google and shows a security warning while opening in Google chrome browser. Google Adsense on the other hand is transparent in term of payment and assures you to get your hard earn money (if you don't do anything that Google doesn't like).

Google Adsense is the best contextual online advertisement program to earn money with a blog but don't use Google Adsense for a business blog/site.

Want to start with the Best online advertising program? Google Adsense Guide is the answer to your question regarding the best advertising program to make money online.

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Blogspot or WordPress- Which One to Use For better SEO?

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Blogger or wordpress- which is better for SEO?

Blogspot or WordPress - which platform to use, is one of the most controversial topic when it comes to blogging. Of course there are many blogging platform like tumblr, drupal and many more, but debate between blogspot and WordPress continues. Blogspot and WordPress are two famous and well established blogging platform but it gets confusing at times, as many bloggers use blogspot because its hassle free, and many bloggers loves WordPress, because of its powerful features.

Which one is better - Blogspot or WordPress?  Here my answer is--

BlogSpot-- Why and Why Not to Use

Blogspot is a perfect blogging platform to start with. Blogspot blogging platform is useful, If you just want to share your thoughts, or you are not blogging for money, or you want a hassle free blogging platform which doesn't require any technical skill. Blogspot has all the basic features to start a blog. It is owned and managed by Google itself. If you want to Start a Blog but doesn't want to pay for Web Hosting then blogspot is for you. But Blogspot has limitations in terms of functionality, customization, SEO benefits and control. You don't have full control on your blog if you use BlogSpot as a Blogging platform. Your blog is owned and managed by Google.

But if you are blogging to make money online, or fame, or branding yourself then blogspot is definitely not for you. You have limited access to customize your blog and can't design your blog as per your needs. Also blogspot doesn't support plugins and you can't make custom widgets for your blog until you know HTML coding and CSS. You have limited visibility in SEARCH ENGINES too. It is believed that since BlogSpot is by Google hence it enjoys SEO benefits but that's not true. SEO depends on the quality of your blog which includes original useful content, good user experience and your blog design. There are many other SEO aspects but lets not get there.

Conclusion: Blogspot is better than WordPress if you are blogging for passion and OK with limited features.

WordPress--Why and Why Not to Use?

WordPress is a well known CMS based platform for blogging. If you are a serious blogger looking to make money online or branding yourself, WordPress is definitely for you. WordPress is a powerful platform with a focus on web standards & usability and easy to use. Using WordPress, you have complete control on your blog. You can change your blog theme as per your niche. WordPress offers many powerful features like plugins, permalink structure, 3rd party themes, you can add custom scripts if they are compatible with your WordPress version and serves many other advantages. WordPress provides you complete control on the SEO by adding SEO plugins. WordPress SEO by Yoast is my top recommendation which solves your SEO needs. You are responsible for installation of  WordPress on your server, and maintaining your WordPress blog. It may sound technical but WordPress Guide by BlogByGeeks will help you get started with a new blog, installation of WordPress plugins, making you familiar with WordPress Hosting, but you don't get a chance to expand your horizon by learning these things in Blogger. WordPress is an open source software with large community of developers, so if you find any issue you will find a solution to it.

But if you are blogging for passion and write occasionally, and don't want to spend money, Blogspot is the deal. But if you want to promote yourself, WordPress is the answer with no second thought.


Matt Cutts- A Googler, talks about Blogspot or WordPress for SEO

Matt is the lead of Google Web Spam Team, who talks about what Google expect from a website. Google is strict about its policies and your website can be penalized by Google without any prior notice, if you are in breach of the policies.

Matt's reveals that personal choice for blogging is WordPress but he also talks about the simplicity of blogger, easy to get started for casual blogging and perfect for starters to taste a flavour of blogging.

When it comes to SEO advantages, there is no big difference in Blogger and WordPress, But if you are using WordPress, you would want to make your blog SEO friendly because  WordPress default installation is not SEO friendly.


Take some time to make the right decision

Blogspot is good when you are new to blogging industry and want a simple blog to start with, or you blog for passion, or you are an occasional blogger and if you don't know about PHP, CSS and HTML, Blogspot is fantastic for you.

WordPress is definitely more powerful in terms of customization and functionality. If you are thinking to become a professional blogger by creating a business blog to make money online, without a doubt, WordPress should be the obvious choice.

I would suggest you to take some time before making any move. What is your thought in Blogger vs WordPress? Which blogging platform you are using and why?

How to Setup RSS Feed For WordPress Blog Using Feedburner

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How to set up RSS feed for wordpress blog using feedburner

Before I start, let me explain you what an RSS feed is?  RSS represents Really Simple Syndication. WordPress blogs automatically have an RSS feed on them while other blogs can have RSS enabled.

One of the most essential things after installing WordPress for the first time is to setup RSS Feeds for WordPress. You can easily burn feeds using a free option called Feedburner. Feedburner is one of the essentials every major blog is using to burn their RSS Feeds because it is indeed a feature rich system that helps to get you traffic for your blog. I suggest that every blogger should set up Feedburner after creating WordPress blog or blogspot blog. Feedburner provides statistics, feed omtimization options, feed publication options and much more

Integrating with Feedburner and Google Analytics is a must for every WordPress blog. In this artical I will show you how to setup your WordPress blog feeds with Feedburner and how to use it efficiently.

Why FeedBurner Is Important For Bloggers?

FeedBurner has more enhanced options than default WordPress feed. Some of the features include:
  • Free Email Subscription (send free email newsletter to you subscribers and unlimited subscribers can subscribe to your blog.)
  • Email Delivery time (you can schedule you emails)
  • Option to customize your feeds such as modify post heading, branding and so on.
  • Option to ping various feed reading services once you publish your post.
  • As it is owned by Google so you can monetize your feeds using Google Adsense.
This is just a short list of features that FeedBurner offers. As a free, FeedBurner is the best but it lacks many features offered by premium options but it still does a nice job. It has many things to improve as compared to other paid and free available options out in the market.  I tried to analyze area of improvements for FeedBurner to work upon and here is the tutorial on :


How FeedBurner can become best free Email Marketing Tool?

When you start a new blog, make sure to burn your feeds from the day one. It is advised to include keywords and brand name in your feed name to make your feeds SEO friendly. This will make it easier to spot among various other feeds and makes your feeds to reach more target audience. This free service from Google adds more functionality and features to your feeds. Now we can move onto setting up Feedburner account.

RSS Feeds are useful for posting on social networks. Especially with Twitter, it is legit to post same article multiple times, even on the same day, so don't think if you post (on Twitter) with RSS, you can't manually post at a different time during the day for a period of multiple days. (Actually, for a piece of content you want to feature, you should write multiple tweets and them publicize them in different ways and schedule them out to tweet)

A Comprehensive Guide To Set up RSS Feeds for WordPress Blog

This guide is for those blogspot and self-hosted wordpress bloggers who are still using the default feed provided by blog platform. By burning your feeds via Feedburner you are providing more options to branding, controlling and tracking your feeds and email subscribers.

1.Open Google Feedburner service page and login using your Google account(Gmail) or any other email you have set up to use Google products like gmail, play store and so on. Once you logged in, you will see an option to add your blog's url. Enter the url of your blog.

2. Now the next step is to copy the blog feed url and paste it as shown into picture and click on next.
step by step guide to setup RSS feeds for your wordpress blog
The default feed for any WordPress blog is like http://domain.com/feed. Replace domain.com with your blog address (ex. http://blogbygeeks.com/feed)

3. In the next page you need to specify feed name. I would suggest to keep it identical as your domain name. If you have a long domain name then you can shorten it for your feeds. Ex. BBG (BlogByGeeks). Micro nice blog, using your keywords in feed title is highly recommended to reach out to target audience.
step by step guide to setup RSS feeds for your WP blog
4. Now the next page will display the confirmation message that your feed is ready.


You have successfully set up a Feedburner feed for your blog.

Even though you have set up your feed with feedburner in the steps above but you haven't really integrated it with your WordPress blog yet. Now it's time to play around. You need to redirect all your default feeds to Feedburner feeds. Create a redirect, so when users try to visit http://domain.com/feed/  they will be redirected to your Feedburned feed page. This way you can keep a track of subscribers on your blog.

FD feedburner plugin for WordPress comes handy in this situation and does a good job in redirecting default feeds to feedburner feed. In also offers many more features. This plugin is easy to configure, once configured, it will automatically start redirecting. You can change the setting of your feedburner account such as at what time you want a feed to publicize, email delivery etc. You can also redirect your feeds using .htaccess file but this procedure involves intermediate skill set hence it is not something we recommend for WordPress beginners.


Coming Soon:
  • Schedule your email delivery
  • How to change feedburner email subject title
  • How to configure free feedburner email delivery option

Some More Fruitful Stuffs to Read : How To Add Google Analytics To Your WordPress Blog


I tried to keep this article short and easy but there are many other things which we need to implement in order to optimize your feeds after burning it via feedburner, and these things will be covered up in details in our upcoming articles.


Do let me know if you face any issue while setting up your RSS feed?

What Are The Best Related Post Plugins For WordPress Blog?

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Best Related Post Plugins for WordPress
Best Related Post Plugins for WordPress
Can be your bounce rate high? Are users leaving your website after reading just one post? Encouraging people to stick about and browse your site generally is a challenge for new bloggers and also content publishers. In this post, we will talk about tips on how to display related posts in WordPress. when a user is done reading your first article, they really should look through other articles too, and hopefully another and an additional.

The movement of users inside your website can have an effect on the search result slant of your respective site in Search engines including Google, so you need to understand the method to improve user experience and also make it really easy for them to find more contents of their interest easily on your blog.

In fact, the more engaged any visitors are, along with the longer that they take browsing your blog, the higher the opportunity they will certainly convert to a sale.

But prior to do anything, you have to ensure that you are publishing good quality content which creates value to your user because regardless of you do, if your content is not adequate enough the users will never stick to your site. So offer them good quality content regularly and design your WordPress Blog the way that it is able to retain visitors on your internet site.

The related post plugin for WordPress comes being a very handy tool in this particular regard, as it can demonstrate related posts to present topic and engage user for more hours.

Now-a-days. the vast majority of current WordPress themes include their unique placing to show related articles. If you are simply just starting off a whole new website, you can check out recommended personal blogging themes or you possibly can get a Genesis theme as they are incredibly powerful along with SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION pleasant.

That is unquestionably the easiest way to decrease the bounce rate of the website. When a website visitor is conducted looking at your own content, they have interest to see a lot more that relates to the publish he or she simply read.

Here I will discuss Best Related Post WordPress Plugins. Check This out--

WordPress Related Posts by Zementa

WordPress Related Posts by Zementa

Download WordPress related posts plugin

Wordpress related Posts plugin by Zementa helps you to spice up user engagement on your WordPress website simply and quickly. All you've got to try and do is install, and activate the plugin.

WordPress related Posts comes with nice support, caching for a quick web experience, and post recommendations provided by Zemanta’s top-of-the-class semantic service. You get totally different show designs, thumbnails, and may you wish to tweak WordPress connected Posts. it’s extremely customizable. what is more, you'll activate advanced options by navigating to Settings--Related Posts.

By default it automatically shows the related posts however you may also get a choice to edit the related posts. In such scenario, i am sure that you'll not stop yourself to edit the related contents of your high acting posts to form it additional relevant to the article. this fashion you'll reduce the bounce rate. The plugin conjointly offers numerous templates for showing related posts with thumbnails, thus you can choose one that matches your blog style.

Shareaholic

Shareaholic--Related Post Plugin for WordPress

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Shareaholic was at the start launched as a social media sharing button plugin and also the connected post feature got introduced later. amazingly algorithm they use works out of the box in suggesting related post that has relevancy to the parent post (post you are reading) itself. move to Shareaholic plugin settings and change the feature to enable it. you'll be able to show related posts with thumbnails below posts, pages, class and index page. each option is designed in such a way that you find it pretty easy and you can configure it manually and can also change the look of related posts to match your blog design. you'll be able to  exclude certain posts, pages to be shown from related post. The exclusion feature conjointly supports wildcard, therefore you'll be able to quickly take away any existing class or tag posts to be shown from connected posts.

Shareaholic isn't any generic related posts plugin. Rather it’s a set of amazing tools like connected posts, share buttons, social analytics, and then far more. Shareaholic comes with a monetize feature, that permits you to enjoy advantage of affiliate linking to make money online along with your content.

With a simple to use dashboard, you'll be able to simply stay high of related posts recommendations, social sharing, your following, promoted contents, and then abundant more! in line with the authors, Shareaholic is “…content amplification and validation platform…” however don’t take my word for it, go investigate & explore Shareaholic, and do share what you will discover.

It’s a clean coded plugin that shouldn’t drag your website speed down. Overall an effective, correct and one amongst the most efficient WordPress related post plugins.


Related Posts

Related Posts- WordPress Plugin

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A very handy WordPress related post plugin, once it is activated, it will automatically show related posts from your website at rock bottom of every post. It additionally provides a choice to show contents from different websites written by different authors that may encourage your users to come back  to your site frequently to find new articles of their interest.


Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)

Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP)-- WordPress Plugin

Download Related Posts Plugin

There are a couple of strong reasons why beyond 300k WordPress users admire and use YARPP concerning their sites. Is this because you can display custom post types, posts, and pages related to your current post? On the other hand is it in the light of the fact that YARPP supports both printed and thumbnail show.

Well, these are just some of the reasons you should scrutinize choosing choosing Yet Another Related Posts Plugin. It ships taking into account chilly features including a templating system that helps you to manage how your related posts will appear, a versatile algorithm that displays the most relevant linked content, and facilitate for RSS feeds among others.

It is popular because it accurately and automatically chooses relevant posts augmented than most other plugins which translates into far away-off along click-through rates.

It has many customization options to be practiced to perfectly style the displayed posts that goes in sync with your blog theme. Display thumbnails behind your link (text) to spice up your posts curb fascination to obtain more clicks. You in addition to have the substitute to take effect the related posts at the bottom of the page or in the sidebar or to display videos.

Its easy to install and use. If you would in addition to when to display post ads considering this plugin, it is an another killing feature available in pro version.

Author Recommended Posts

Author Recommended Posts

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Author recommended Posts allows you to simply search and select specific posts, pages and custom post varieties you would like to associate to a post or page. you'll add, reorder, take away elect posts for show via the easy drag and drop interface.

Here are some distinctive features of this plugin:
  • Simple clean designs for basic layout/structure
  • Show/hide output title & featured pictures
  • Display your suggested posts vertically or side-by-side
  • Filter that content is searchable and that post varieties to mechanically output on

This plugin offers you heap of management on your hands to control the related post space, you'll search and choose related posts as per your selection from posts, pages or custom post type to promote that exact post of its contents to drive additional traffic to those articles.

You can add, reorder, take away elect posts for show via the easy drag and drop interface. And you'll show the suggested posts vertically or side-by-side looking on the structure of your theme

Related posts are essential and unavoidable part of any site on the grounds that they play a vital role in engaging your visitors and shorten the bounce rate of your site.

All the aforementioned WordPress related post plugins are attempted and tried, so you can utilize them on your site with no issue.

We trust our post will help you to pick the ideal related posts plugin for your WordPress site. For input and/or inquiries, please don't be hesitate to utilize the comment area beneath. See you around!!

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Best Mobile Optimization Plugins for WordPress Blog

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Best Mobile Optimization Plugins For WordPress Blog
Best Mobile Optimization Plugins For WordPress Blog
More and more people are using mobile devices to get into the world wide web. In fact, research shows two-thirds regarding the internet users employ their devices (phone,tablet and desktop) to search online. On top of that, one-third of these users (40 per cent) mostly employ their phone to get into the world wide web, as opposed to additional equipment such as desktop computer and laptops.

Depending on your site’s demographic, it would be necessary for you to own a mobile-friendly website. you can do that by either employing a responsive WordPress theme that adapts to totally different screen sizes / devices, otherwise you'll have to switch to a mobile-specific version of your website if you don’t wish to change the style/theme of your WordPress website.

If your website isn't optimized for mobile, you’re losing an entire chunk of users on the go who can quickly look in other places if your website doesn't load properly on their device resulting bad user experience.

According to a study conducted in last month reveals the fact that mobile traffic now accounts for 16 percent of traffic.

Yet, more than 66 percent of smart phone users are frustrated by the lack of responsive design and slow load times. Finally, more than 48 percent of mobile users complain that websites were not optimized for mobile use.

Check out: Caching Plugin for Faster Loading

Certainly, you don’t want your users frustrated. You want them to enjoy the experience, visit your site often, engage with you, and convert. If you are on WordPress, here are a few plugins (yes, there are plugins for almost everything when it comes to WordPress!) to help make your website responsive:

To reach this kind of users, you should assure your website works great in mobile phones. Luckily, there are numerous great cost-free quality plugins that hopefully will make this happen in your case.



WPTouch Mobile Plugin

WPTouch Mobile Plugin for WP Blog


WPtouch replaces your web site with a mobile-only concept and displays your articles and not much else. The result is user-friendly, fast and actually quite easy to understand.

This free of charge version from the plugin offers some good basic custom remaking, such seeing that language prognosis, custom code, branding hues, typography, social media marketing in your footer as well as other styling selections.

The neat thing about WPtouch is usually how easy it can be to put together – simply activate your plugin and your site will be automatically optimized intended for mobile prior to deciding to even have to think about the plugin’s adjustments. The plugin in addition allows visitors to your site to switch between your mobile-only site and your regular concept.

You simply can’t overlook a plugin used by more in comparison with 5. 5 million blogs. WPTouch Pro is a mobile result focused suite having a full-blown WPTouch Design, which is about faster in comparison with responsive websites with touch enhancements (ready intended for multi-screen), and a crisp retina program.

The WPTouch Plugin functions “Infinity Cache” to produce your site blazing quickly using cell caching. Images are generally scaled by using CSS and also the plugin provides mobile-optimized images good device. WPTouch makes use of extensions (much similar to add-on in just a plugin) to help you render independent content for mobile devices, along using the images along with faster rendition mentioned above.

They also give a premium type available with much advanced options to configure. You can even examine detail set of features and various pricing options.

The pro version of WPtouch begins at $29 for a single website, which involves feature along with security revisions, cloud themes downloading.

This is definitely an incredible plugin with almost half a dozen million downloading.

Ideal for : Those who're looking to give a one of a kind user experience to desktop and cell users. This plugin also comes with an add-on (enable server-side optimization) that lets you supply templates manufactured for mobile devices by detecting a cell device is usually accessing your web site.

Requires: WPTouch plugin needs WordPress type 3. 6 or more.

Download WPTouch Plugin

WP Mobile Detector

WP Mobile Detector Mobile Plugin for WordPress Blog


This plugin automatically detects the device getting at your WordPress blog as well as a loads a compatible device theme design. It features sophisticated analytics, easily handles over 5000+ mobile phone devices, format content articles to suit mobile devices, and also offers several pre installed mobile themes for your blog..

This WP Mobile Detector Plugin automatically picks up whether your readers are using a mobile device and then displays a compatible mobile theme.

There are 9 mobile themes provided and you can alter any of your existing themes to display to mobile users.

When starting this particular plugin, you will have to established permissions to give it time to work properly. That plugin likewise hasn’t been recently fashioned with UX as the primary goal..

Ideal For: WP Mobile Detector is the foremost decision for you personally if you have a major chunk of non-smartphone viewers. This plugin will detect whether a request is coming from a smartphone OR a standard mobile phone and loads a compatible mobile theme for even adequate mobile phone users according to their mobile versions and screen resolutions.

Note: This plugin is not updated for a long time but does what is suppose to. Check the compatibility with your WordPress before downloading.

This premium version  WP Mobile Detector pro enables people to build the personalized portable design along with integrated portable design manager!

Download WP Mobile Detector Plugin



Any Mobile Theme Switcher

Any Mobile Theme Switcher Plugin WP


Any Mobile Theme Switcher is a intensely basic plugin that detects the device a person is using to view your site and displays your chosen theme. With this theme its realizable to use one theme for iPhone users, a exchange theme for Android users and option yet for those using Windows Mobile.

There are a little handful of options that depends on you to set how long the mobile theme is displayed for and whether to comport yourself the mobile-relation of the site to desktop users.

It Detects each and every one the Mobile Browsers and supreme quantity the mobile theme as per your settings curtains in running.
  • Iphone / Ipod
  • Ipad
  • Palm Os
  • Android
  • Android Tab
  • Windows Mobile
  • Blackberry
  • Opera Mini
  • Others Mobile Browsers
  • You can select a different mobile theme for each mobile browser. You can select different mobile themes for each of the options above.


Any Mobile Theme Switcher Pro Features :

Works With W3 Total Cache
Serve separate home page for mobile devices.
QR Code for mobile bookmarking.
Better Mobile Detection.
Click To Call to phone numbers.

Click Here for details about Any Mobile Theme Switcher Pro
Download Any Mobile Theme Switcher(Free)

If you’re searching for an easy answer for displaying a mobile-friendly website to your blog fans , the free version of WPtouch is accessible within the WordPress Plugin Repository may be a nice possibility. If you wish to easily show a unique theme to mobile users, Any Mobile Theme plugin permits you to show a mobile friendly version of your website.

WPtouch is  an amazing possibility for developers making larger sites. I'd additionally suggest to look for  iThemes Mobile plugin as another swap. Each plugins offers in depth options and support.

Users experience play a vital role in a blog's success. Making your blog mobile friendly can attract visitor thus increase your CTR. Also make your blog loads faster by using W3 Total Cache Plugin.

So which plugin so you use to optimize your blog for mobile?  Let Me know how you like this post. As always Don't forget to share this post on your social network.

Google Tag Manager : An Advanced Guide For Pro Bloggers

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Google Tag Manager is a powerful tool to integrate all the snippet codes to your Blog. Google offers this tool freeof cost and it has many powerful features included. If you haven’t already, go and make yourself a Google Analytics Account.

You should be familiar that one of the most important thing for any website is to have some analytics tool to track your website's performance. There are number of ways to integrate GA tag/s to your sites but I prefer to use Google tag manager because of it's adaptability in terms of controlling the sophisticated tags as dexterously. You may have compound tags installed upon your websites and it is not an easy task to rule them all manually hence in this issue Google tag manager comes out as saviour for tag management.

Google Tag Manager is a user-understandable tool that lets you update website tags once your conversion tracking, analytics, re-marketing, or beautiful much any added form of tracking you compulsion as a marketer all without having to update your sites code each and every one one period.

Google Tag Manager works by letting you install a single snippet of code, called a container, in your website. From the Google Tag Manager interface, you are swift to collective tags and site rules that determine once those tags fire.

Setting going on a container and installing it upon a website takes very approximately the same approach as installing Google Analytics. Since on anyone I enlarge on at the forefront will have at least nine tags installed upon their website, I require a totalling client to set occurring and install Google Tag Manager by now I begin effective.

Pre-requisites in order to make this take put it on :
Google Account
Self hosted WordPress


What Is Google Tag Manager?

As we know that Google offers premium services to webmasters and Bloggers for comprehensible once Google Analytics and Feedburner. Recently, Google has launched marginal rebellious serve called "Google tag manager" which is crucial from SEO approach and efficient page rendering. For all website we make, we decline taking place count uphill many tages, JavaScript s for social buttons and scripts taking into consideration Google Analytics tags, poster tags and many others. Google tag manager provides you an easy hold almost speaking all your tags installed something once your website/s from single web interface where you can speedily take primordial and cut off collective tags at any narrowing of era.

I had subsequent to created a blog and inserted many widgets scripts, JS for social buttons and few advertising scripts resulting the slow loading of my website. As we always learn from our mistakes, we should not repeat an error again and then I decided to remove some of the scripts from my websites. Since this tool works furthermore a draw by managing all the tags at one place, speeds going on the load era as Google sync code to the best realizable quirk (asynchronously) that means your website will not be slow because of slow loading tags.


This Tutorial is in Two Parts:
  1. Adding Google Analytics Tag to Google tag Manager
  2. Adding Google Tag Manages to your WordPress website

Adding Google Analytics Tag to Google Tag Manager

Here I am assuming that you already have a Google Analytics account. If you haven’t already, create one for yourself.  Please access How to set happening Google Analytics for WordPress.

So you have now own a Google Analytics account. What next? You dependence to integrate your GA Analytics to Google tag Manager. Up until google Tag Manager arrived webmaster had to involve the tracking code(s) on the order of the subject of the all page throughout the CMS (once WordPress) and create certain that it showed the right tracking code(s) on the right page at the right period.


All that distorted behind Google Tag Manager. Let see how?


There are few things which you should know :

Account : Name of the account. Usually its the company make known for which you are managing the tag.

Container: A container is for your website/app or multiple websites/apps. for ex. If you have two different domains for your website, you would create a container for each domain.

Tags : Tags will be created under a container. You will be creating different tags for easy tag management under a container. For example: one tag for Google Analytics, another tag for infolinks.

Rules : it defines you when and how these tags are executed. For a beginner, selecting All pages is a pleasing choice but if you are a pro blogger and you know what are you doing, you can create a custom rule if you don't want a specific tag to be executed on a particular page or directory og your website.

Along upfront this, you can afterward combined add-on users to run your tags. This is totally useful bearing in mind you have an advertising company or a developer working for you and you sore spot them to take care of adding and removing code, without giving access to your Website or Gmail account.


To do so, you need to Setup Google Tag Manager as well.

Point your browser to the site for Google Tag Manager and login via your Google account. Create a new Google Tag Manager Account as shown in the image :
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If you just have one blog, select the blog notice as Account Name. But if you run fused blogs, you should pick a cool proclaim and all your blogs will be placed below this declare. Ex. I designate DreamsOfLife as my Account Name and far-off away ahead I have added all my blogs as a Container.


Create a New Google Tag Manager Container for your Website (blogbygeeks.com)


This is where I Add my First website into container

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Select Web under where to use Container

Now click on Create and you’ll get following screen.

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Accept Google Tag Manager Use Policy by clicking on Yes.

Once your account and container is created and you click the Yes (blue) button, you’ll be shown a new page with a snippet of code. You use this code on your site just after the opening body tag and it should be pasted onto every page of your website where you want to use the GTM. You will also notice that at the bottom of the page you have quite a few options to add tags. You can add them later, but I recommend at least adding Google Analytics right away, which brings us to our next point. With many premium WordPress themes, you will have a place to add code without editing theme files.

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If you using WordPress, use this plugin and add just the code which says something like “GTM-xxxx” under settings--Google tag manager.

Now, click around Google analytics at the bottom to add GA using GTM. Now, buildup your Google Analytic Web property ID which is in your Google Analytic code and click upon Add Rule to tag. Default rule is all page, choose it and click upon again click upon Save to add this newly created tag.



How to create a firing rule

As you can see in the screenshot below, you can accretion what is called a Firing feature. This means that if you have in certain rules you want your Tag Manager to know very approximately complimentary pages, you can add them here. You can pick from existing rules, select All pages (usually a comfortable option for beginners), or create a subsidiary sit in judgment.

Extra Suggestions: On this same page you can entire sum what is called a Blocking Rule as related to ease as go into Advanced Settings, which allows you to enable a custom tag firing schedule or descent every substitute versions to each container. The options you have go beautiful deep, hence I inform checking out this associate subsequently you have a mood for how the tool works and are ready to move on to more custom and enlightened features.

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Similarly you can create on new tag and Infolinks or any other 3rd party script which you need to add in every page of your site. don't forget to change tag type to HTML tag type. Save all the informations.


How to Publish a Tag in Google Tag Manager:

Now click upon checking account on the left sidebar and the tool will appear in you a preview of what you have just set up and you can click Publish. Once satisfied, click upon Publish and tags added via GTM will be live on your Website.

Google Tag Manager : Publish a Tag

Then what? You can for eternity go by now to your GTM dashboard and ensue added tags or make changes to your containers at any era by clearly signing in to your Google Tag Manager dashboard. In the above example we went through the Google Analytics Tag, therefore that means that the code for Google Analytics will be operational and statistics will be logged to your account.

You can always add a new user to your company and to container by clicking on users and settings. Your code is located at users and settings--setting.

It might seem taking into consideration a lot of vibrant accomplishment following you could just use Google Analytics (also you probably already had set taking place in the first place), but recall that you have options for all of your other tags. Since they all are in one area hence the more you use the tool the more beneficial it will be.  google Tag Manager comes up as a handy tool for tag management for multiple websites. If I talk about me, I have several websites running under my hood.  I have to manage multiple websites, GTM comes out as a useful tool to manage all my tags


Once you start on GTM, you'll find this guide an easy way to understand what GTM is all about.


Also read : How to Generate and Install Google Analytics in WordPress


Have you used the Google Tag Manager in the adjunct? Is there anything you've found particularly cooperative? Use this guide to set up GTM for your blog and let me know your experience.