How to make Blogdrive pages rank higher in search engines?

Blogdrive is a great *cough* blogging software, however it isn't the most search engine friendly blog platform around.

New entries or blogs tend to get higher ranking than old post because of Blogdrive's way of handling 404 pages. These new content, either entries or blogs receive a large amount of incoming links from Blogdrive main page and 404 pages. (The number of incoming links is porportional to your page rank.)

As a result, if you regularly updates your blog, your blog will naturally have higher page rank due to these incoming links. (Tip 1)

Other methods, will largely depend on the design and internal HTML coding of your blog.

Tip 2: Insert permalink of important post you made to your sidebar. Since your sidebar appears in every single page of your entire blog, it naturally gives a high number of incoming links. It helps a lot.

Associating keywords to your individual post have a tremendous help of relating to relevant searches. This, however is difficult because Blogdrive system doesn't help in this aspect, at all.

A little hack here and there in the HTML makes a difference.

Such as this blog, each permalink pages have it's Blog Title in the title bar. This is done by forcing individual blog post title into the <title> tag. (Tip 3) This method makes your permalink page rank goes up a significant one PR (PageRank)

Another method, is to link to your individual post with the relevant keyword. Either in your blog, or your friend. Let's consider this as Tip 4.

Tip 5: A newly discovered method by myself, is to insert your blog title into your permalink. Currently, all permalink has the format http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html with no specific keyword in the URL. If we make it look like this:
http://seigey.blogdrive.com/archive/360.html?Search+Engine+Friendly+BlogDrive

I consider this as another genius idea of mine and I gladly share it with all. Have fun.

Four secret Blogdrive goodies that you should never know

While we are constantly complaining about how much Blogdrive can improve, let's take a moment to be reminded of all the good stuff we have here on Blogdrive that you shouldn't have known.

If you are reading this article right now you should turn off the lights and make sure there's nobody behind you. If you are discovered to have obtain these information, an assassin will be sent to murder you.

1) Built-in search feature - Search your own blog with the blogdrive's built-in search feature, it's originally only available for subscription blogs but if you use a GET method on your url, you'll get a free (temporary) feature. However, it only search your blog titles.

2) exceed your bandwidth - for free accounts, an allocated amount of 50mb monthly bandwidth can be exceeded even without any upgrades. If you have a subscription blog, your allocated monthly bandwidth will be higher but again your files will not fail to load in the event that you exceeded it. So, what are you complaining about? (please note: you can't store more than what you should)

3) store HTML / CSS / JS documents in your filemanager with .jpg extensions. Okay, this is supposed to be a techy hack but it works.

4) the amazing Seige - this isn't just a goodie thingy but the coolest lad I've ever known on Blogdrive. He's smart, brilliant and above all massively fantastic. Oh, did I mention that he's got a great sense of humour?

Do you have other ideas or suggestions?

Tags: blogdrive secrets goodies

Google Gadget API for Blogdrive

Did you know that you can personalised your Google Homepage? Did you know that you can add your favourite blogs or news feed to it? Did you know that you can actually add some gadgets (or widgets) to your homepage?

Well, there are more than just widgets. There are a whole lot of variety to choose from: Clocks with Date and Time, Local Weather, Gmail intergration, Google Calendar, Google Reader. You can even insert Sudoku into your homepage. How cool is that?

So, after founding this new found area of playground. I got to work to create a number of Google Gadget APIs for Blogdrive. Currently only two: One for Blogdrive Templates, and the other for Tagalicious.

Add them to your homepage and try it out (you'll need a google account like Gmail to start with) and let me know your feedbacks on the Gadgets I wrote.

Blogdrive Templates
Tagalicious http://www.googlemodules.com/module/695/
Blogdrive Favorites
Module Manager 1.1


All my modules can be found here under Seige. Hope you enjoy using them.

oh and if you fancy XSL stuff... you can try this out too!

Desperado

Yes, I'm no longer single, available and happy.

I've jumped into the Single And Desperate (SAD) zone.

Get me out, somebody, anybody!!!

It's just a Flirting Game!

Don't get too caught up in it. This is just one of the most over-used advice I give to myself and yet, I still fell into the trap. Haha.

Thanks Soul-D. It helped with all those nasty arguments we had.

seigey.blogdrive.com

This is my new blogger blog. My real blog is in http://seigey.blogdrive.com/ where I blog. The reason I created a blog here is so that I can comment on Blogger blogs. Happy?