blogger | Ajo Paul

To use the Google Webmaster Tools for your blog, you must first add your blog and allow it to be self verified. This way you tell google, that this ‘site’ is indeed yours.

For a blogger account, the help is given here. If you choose the meta tag verification method for your blogspot blogs, here are the steps to get it verified.

Open your dashboard by visiting blogger.com. Proceed to Settings > Layout > Edit HTML > EDIT Template.

In the code provided copy the <meta> content you picked up from the google’s webmaster tools page. After saving the template, proceed to webmaster page and click on verfiy.

Also to update the sitemap url, proceed to http://yourblog.com/robots.txt copy the sitemap url and update it under Webmaster’s sitemap section.

Google talk team has come up with a talkback gadget which can be added to your site or blog. This will allow visitors to be able to chat with you on your gtalk account if you are online. With just few lines of html code, you can be now be contacted from anywhere on the web. The interesting catch is that the visitors need not have a gtalk account or even a email address to be able to ping you.

Visit the link to know more. GoogleTalk or to get started login with your google account

Update: I have added this to my blogspot blog and also to my wordpress blog using a trick as suggested in this blog http://daniel.fallenste.in/2008/05/18/howto-google-talk-badge-on-wordpresscom/

Cheers to Innovation @ Google.

P.S Am not too sure if this is a original idea by google, but then what ever google does will have a massive usage and awareness.