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So you decided to remove a post or a page (from your blog or website) like nobody's business when in fact, it is a business. I am talking about the mess that Mr Search Engines have to face, trying to find the page or post he found yesterday, but now is gone. If someone created a back link to this post, it is worse, because it means there will be more attempts to find, and he will never find it. When this happened, you have crawl errors.

Crawl errors may happen for many reasons, and the one mentioned above is only one simple example. Other than removing your page or post, it can due to act of changing the tags, categories, changing the format of the permalink and many more. I will demonstrate this shortly

Why is crawl errors bad?
1. When search engine cannot find it, he is in mess
2. When search engine is in mess, he will not give your blog/website a good rank. Good rank means searchable. (there are many opinions on this, but let's just do it while we can)

So, I (still) have sore fingers from yesterday afternoon, removing most of the crawl errors found in my free blogspot and paid domain and trust, I will never let it  accumulated this much again, next time.

To do this, I will use another free Google product called the Webmaster Tool. Remember the 70% and the eat-and-sleep-there I mentioned in my previous blog post? To explain why Google matters.

So let's start:

Below are 2 snapshots of crawl errors of mine. I have 46 crawl errors in one of my blogspot yesterday and now has reduced to 10, and 118 crawl errors in my paid domain, which has now reduced to 8. (that makes 146 errors removal attempts yesterday x 10 click per removal (apprx) = and caused the sore fingers. See how the graph has significantly went down today.

my blogspot crawl errors.

my Paid domain crawl errors

Ok let's see how to this:

When you write a blog post, sure you wish someone will eventually find and read it. To get a comment is a plus, or they may opt to FB-like-it, or add into their Pinterest or the rest of other social media tools you have enabled. (long lived good people like this)

There are ways to make your blog post searchable ( rank - is what they call it) by Mr Search Engines. Who are Mr Search Engines? Mr Google, Mr Bing, Mr Yahoo, and the list goes to infinity.

This is the coolest tool I have been trying to learn for the past 2 week. It it gives a more accurate information compare those numbers available at the blogger menu >stats. And it is free too!

This is one of mine. I have 4 altogether, and more to come..hee - the craz* me :)

Sometimes you need another row of a page widget because you have too many menus (created using pages) to be displayed. Sometimes you just need it to separate different group of menus  as visualized below. By default, the blogger setting will only allow one page widget to be added per layout. Here is the other way around.

before

Perhaps you own a blog and have a consistent traffics coming, but now decided to say good bye. Among other reasons you need to perform this task:
1. You have purchased a paid domain and is closing your blogspot account
2. You have too many blogs and decided to close some.

So don't waste the traffic by just closing in. Perform this redirection, so your existing traffic will reach your new destination, the new paid domain url or your existing blogspot which you decided to keep. Dont make your loyal visitor thought that you "are dead" because they dont find any update in your blog for sooooo long.

So, this coding is to be inserted inside the HTML template, although is only a single line and frea*ingly simple, always be reminded to perform the backup (I will write this one soon too). You can always go back if anything dont go well - it not necessarily because you are not brilliant, but can be as simple as a non-technical reason like you spilled you coffee on your laptop and suddenly there is no electricity :)

I dont know if this code can be implemented someplace else (other than blogspot blogs), but there is no harm to try - always create a testing account so you can freely test around.

And this is how to do it. Klik

Step by step untuk tambah additional 3 widgets di bahagian footer? Works for me, hope it works for you.

Before - only 1 one-column footer widget

After: additional 3-column footer widgets

 Click for guideline

Prolog