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5 Simple Ways to Grow Your Small Business This Week Posted on: June 2025 Running a small business means wearing a hundred hats—and some days, even remembering your email password feels like a win. But there are a few things you can do this week that actually make a difference, especially if you want more people to find you, visit you, and trust you. This week, let's give your business a digital boost—no long courses, no tech headaches. Just five easy, practical steps you can take right now to grow your business online. 1. Put Yourself on the (Google) Map If your business isn’t on Google, it’s almost invisible. The easiest way to show up is to claim your Google Business Profile. That way, when someone searches for your shop, service, or hours, they’ll actually find the right info—plus directions, photos, reviews, and more. Try this: Search your business name on Google. If it pops up, click “Own this business?” and follow the steps. If it doesn’t, head to Google Busin...
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How I Boosted My Clicks by Fixing Meta Titles and Descriptions in Blogger Ever wondered why some blog posts show up on Google with clean, catchy titles… and yours look like a mess? Yeah, same here. When I first started blogging, my titles were either too long, too boring, or just didn’t show up right on Google. But once I learned how to write proper meta titles and descriptions , everything changed. 🎯 What Are Meta Titles & Descriptions? Meta Title = The clickable blue link you see on Google Meta Description = The short summary below it If you don’t write them, Google will guess — and trust me, it usually gets it wrong. 🔧 How to Add Meta Titles & Descriptions in Blogger Step 1: Turn on Search Description in Blogger Go to your Blogger dashboard Click Settings → scroll to Meta tags Enable “ Search description ” and write a short description for your blog Step 2: Add Search Description for Each Post When writing or editing a post, l...
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Why Blogger Creates Duplicate Pages (And How to Fix It for Better SEO) Posted on: June 10, 2025 When I first started blogging, I assumed each of my posts had one clean URL and that was it. Wrong. Blogger automatically generates extra versions of your content — label pages, archive pages, paginated lists — and they can cause big SEO problems if not handled properly. 🔁 What Are Duplicate Pages in Blogger? They’re not exactly duplicates like you copy-pasted a post twice, but: /search/label/YourLabel – groups posts by label /search?updated-max=... – paginated post listings /2024_05_01_archive.html – monthly archive pages Each of these might repeat chunks of your original post, creating near-identical content across multiple URLs. 😬 Why It’s a Problem ❌ Confuses Google on which version to rank 📉 Dilutes your content’s SEO strength 🌀 Wastes crawl budget on thin or repeated pages And when I checked my blog using the Siteliner duplicate cont...
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How to Remove Old or Unwanted URLs from Google (Without Deleting Your Blog) Posted on: June 5, 2025 Ever searched your blog on Google and found some weird, outdated page still showing up? For me, it was a test post I had deleted weeks ago. But there it was — still sitting on Google, looking ugly and broken. Luckily, you don’t need to panic or delete your entire blog. Google gives you tools to clean this stuff up. Here's how I did it (and how you can too). 🧼 Why You Should Remove Old URLs 🚫 They might lead to broken pages (404 errors) 🔄 They could show outdated or irrelevant content 🧩 They might compete with your newer, better pages in search 📉 Too many low-value URLs can hurt your blog’s SEO ✅ Step-by-Step: Remove URLs Using Google Search Console Open Google Search Console Select your blog from the property list In the left panel, click on “Removals” Click the “New Request” button Paste the full URL you want to remove (example: h...
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How I Fixed My Blog Traffic Using Google Search Console (Without Knowing SEO) Posted on: June 4, 2025 If you’ve ever felt invisible on Google, you’re not alone. When I started my blog, I expected traffic to magically appear. I posted content, added images, even shared on social media. But Google? Silent. Then I discovered something powerful (and free): Google Search Console . 🔍 What Is Google Search Console? It’s a free tool by Google that lets you: Track how your blog appears in search results See what people are searching to find you Fix crawling or indexing errors Submit sitemaps and URLs for faster indexing You don’t need to be an SEO expert — I’m proof of that. 😄 🧩 My Traffic Problem Even after publishing 8 blog posts, none of them showed up on Google. I submitted my sitemap, added a good robots.txt — and still, nothing. So I opened Search Console and clicked around until I saw this: Excluded – Discovered, not indexed It meant Google ...
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What Is a Sitemap (and Why Your Blog Needs One to Survive on Google) Posted on: June 3, 2025 I still remember the day I searched for my blog on Google and found... nothing. I had written 10+ posts, designed everything, and shared links everywhere — yet Google didn’t care. That’s when I stumbled upon something called a sitemap . Think of a sitemap as a “Google GPS” for your blog. Without it, your blog posts are just lost pages floating in the internet void. 🗺️ What Exactly Is a Sitemap? A sitemap is a special XML file that lists all the important pages on your blog, so search engines can crawl and index them properly. It’s like saying: “Hey Google, here’s a list of everything I’ve published — please visit!” Example of a sitemap URL (for Blogger): https://yourblog.blogspot.com/sitemap.xml 💡 Why Is a Sitemap Important? 🧭 Helps Google discover new blog posts faster 📈 Improves your chances of ranking in search results 🔍 Shows search engines your site’s ...
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robots.txt Explained in Simple Words (and How I Broke My Blog With It) Posted on: Let me be honest—I didn’t even know what a robots.txt file was until I accidentally blocked my entire blog from Google. 😅 One line of code, and poof , my content vanished from search results. If you’re wondering what robots.txt is and whether you should touch it (or leave it alone), this post is for you. 🤖 So, What Is robots.txt ? Think of robots.txt as a gatekeeper file. It’s a small text file that tells search engine bots (like Googlebot) what parts of your website they can or can’t visit. It sits quietly in your site’s root directory like this: yourwebsite.com/robots.txt 📌 Why Should You Care? Because search engines don’t magically understand your site. They need instructions. If you mess this up, you might accidentally: Block Google from crawling your entire site 😬 Hide important pages (like your homepage or blog posts) Waste your “crawl budget” on useless stuff lik...
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