YSR Andhra Pradesh crash

The last rites of the Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y S Rajsekhar Reddy will be held with full state honours at his native place Pulivendula in Cuddapah district on Friday.

According to sources the burial of the departed Chief Minister will be held at around 2 pm. Before that, the dead chief minister’s body will lie in state at the Lal Bahadur Shastri Stadium from Friday morning till about 1 pm to allow the general public and the political leadership to pay their last respects. It will then be flown to his native village in Cuddapah District for final rites.

The charred and decomposed bodies of Reddy and four others were airlifted by an Indian Air Force helicopter to state capital, where autopsy was conducted.

The Andhra Pradesh Government has declared seven days state mourning in honour of YSR and cancelled all the official programmes in the state and the national flag will be hoisted at half-mast.

Adding meta tags to blogger(blogspot) blogs,websites-SEO

If you don't know what meta tags are, and what is the importance of adding meta tags, here is the detailed description on how to add them to your blogger(blogspot) blogs or any website.

Do you know adding meta tags is so important if you want to get more traffic from search engines like google,yahoo,msn,etc,especially the meta description is the most important one.

If you don't know what meta tags are,Meta tags are the tags which describes your site and tells the search engines what your site is all about.Adding meta tags is an important factor in SEO.(Search Engine Optimisation).Meta tags allows search engines to index your web pages more accurately. In other words,Meta tags communicate with the search engines and tells more information about your site and make it index correctly and accurately.
Here is an example.This is what I got when I typed 'Kranthi tips' in the Google Search Engine.

As you can observe.'Tips and tricks............' is the meta tags description which I added to my site.

We have to add two meta tags to the head section of the template.One is the Meta description which describes your site and another one is Meta Keywords which tells about your site keywords(what your site is all about)

Here is how to add meta tags to your blogger(blogspot) blog:

1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>click the 'layout' button[see the screenshot below]

2.Click on the 'Edit html' tab

Here is the code you have to add

'DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/> 'KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/> 'AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>

DESCRIPTION HERE:Write your blog description
KEYWORDS:Write the keywords of your blog
AUTHOR NAME:Write the author's name(Your name)

3.Add the above code just after this [Look at the below screenshot]

Don't forget to add description and keywords.
and save the changes.

IMPORTANT:

Several people were filling with just the keywords in the description.DON'T DO THAT.Google and other search engines will ban your site from the search engines list if you did so.And also,don't repeat the keyword more than 3 times.

That's it!You have sucessfully added the metatags to your blogger(blogpsot) blog.If you want to check whether you added the meta tags correctly or not,just type 'meta tags analyzer tool' in the google and you will find so many sites which can check whether you have added the tags correctly or not.

16 (+1) Free Blog Tools

Today, I want to share with you some tools that can be very useful for every blogger or webmaster. All tools are completely free for everyone, and you can use them that way too. There’ll be listed misc tools useful specially for blogging or blogs. A lot of these tools are self-depended, so you can use them on all popular blogging services and scripts. Feel free to explore all of them!

16 Free Tools for Blogging and Blogs

1. Ping-o-Matic – This tool is popular pinging service that helps you to update different search engines that your blog has updated. Actually, this service announces main search engines and services that something on your blog is changed or updated!
2. Pingoat – Another popular and quality pinging service that allows you to notify main search engines and services about your own blog updates. By pinging, you let the services know that your blog has been updated and hence, they crawl and index your site more in right time.
3. Creative Commons – Creative Commons provides free tools that let authors, scientists, artists, and educators easily mark their creative work with the freedoms they want it to carry. You can use CC to change your copyright terms from “All Rights Reserved” to “Some Rights Reserved.”
4. Flock – Also popular as the only browser which is oriented to Social Networking. It’s based on Mozilla Firefox engine and supports extensions. Very nice tool for all “social web” freaks!
5. FeedBurner – For sure, most popular tool that adds a variety of features to your RSS feeds. Allowing many options, customizations and optimizations for your blog RSS feeds. Recommended tool (if you already not use it).
6. CopyScape – Defend your site with a plagiarism warning banner! Also, allowing you to search online for plagiarism and your blog duplicates on other web sites and services. Good way to keep yourself updated about what’s happening with your blog articles – and where!
7. Blog Flux – Blogflux is designed to be a central destination for the blogosphere, providing you everything you need to get your blog up and running.
8. Backpack – Share info, schedules, documents, and to-dos across your company, group, or organization. This can be very useful tool for all bloggers. It’s free and very easy to use for everyone, includes Notes, To-Do list support and more!
9. Talk Digger – Talk Digger is the way to find conversations emerging on the Web. To find conversations about any subject or website, just enter some text or web site address (URL) in the search box, chose what you are looking for and press the “Search” button.
10. Gabbly – Gabbly is a platform that enables people to instantly connect and collaborate around any content, topic or interest. Allows you to place real-time live chat boxes into your blog posts and contents. Can be very useful tool.
11. Bookmark & Share – Increase traffic to your website andauto-submit all your bookmarks with One Button. Allowing you to place this button on your blog completely for free!
12. Add to Any – Similar to above tool, but it’s little different. Allowing you to place one of two (or both) widgets that allowing you visitor to share or save (bookmark) your pages. Uses nice effects and fast script for showing results fast.
13. TinyURL – Are you sick of posting URLs in emails only to have it break when sent causing the recipient to have to cut and paste it back together? Automatic auto-shorten service for long URL’s. Can be used anywhere.
14. Odeo – This tool will helps you to record and share online audio materials and podcasts. With many available audio tools and large community.
15. FavIcon Generator – Generates you icons from photos your upload using this service. This tool can be very useful and it’s very easy-to use. Simply select a picture, logo or other graphic and that’s all!
16. Windows Live Writer – This is mine favorite desktop blog post publishing application. It’s created by Microsoft and supports many great features and options that you can use completely for your blog. Plug-ins and all popular blogging services are supported also!
17. AAfter Search - The site provides a unique Domain Research Tool for the bloggers as well as the webmasters. It helps finding track records, reputation, domain speed and other important domain-related information in just few seconds; just type the URL in the search box and get it done. (Thanks to Mr Anonymous who shares the link) **
    

You are completely free to use any of above listed tools. Be sure that you will improve your overall blogging experience with some of these free blogging tools. Enjoy in blogging!

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