Setup/Add Bigrock Custom Domain Name With Blogger

Setup/Add Bigrock Custom Domain Name With Blogger

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After Choosing Good Domain Name For Your Blog, Here i we'll show how to setup bigrock custom domain name with blogger. If once you add custom domain name in blogger after that you can also create subdomain in bigrock and map it with blogger blog. 

Steps For Map Bigrock Domain With Blogger 

Step 1: Login With Your Bigrock Account And Choose Domain Which Want To Map With Blogger Blog.

Step 2: Click on "Manage DNS".

Step 3: New Popup Menu is display. Click on "A Record" and Click on "Add A Records".

Step 4: Now leave empty host name field, Add Destination IPv4 Address "216.239.32.21".

Repeat these 3 more times and add following destination IPv4 Address for "A Records" 

• "216.239.34.21"
• "216.239.36.21"
• "216.239.38.21"

Step 5: After creating "A Record". Go to CNAME tab and click on "Add CNAME Record".

Step 6: In Host name, Write "WWW" and and insert "ghs.google.com" in value then click on Add Record. 

After completing all above steps, you have to map your bigrock domain with your blogger blog and needs to verify your blog with bigrock. 

Step 7: Login with your blogger account. Go to Setting>>Basic and click on Set Up Third Party URL. 
After That enter your domain name and click on save button. Then your blog ask to verify authority on that domain name. Now needs to create another CNAME record.

Step 8: Go to "CNAME record" and then click on "ADD CNAME RECORD". Place first code in host name and place second code in value. Now click on Add Record.

Step 9: After that needs to repeat step 7. Go to Setting Setting>>Basic and click on Set Up Third Party URL. Then enter your domain name and click on save button. At that time it not display any error. This process take some times to updates DNS setting.

Redirect Non-WWW to WWW

Step 10: After some time Login with your blogger account. Go to Setting>>Basic and click on EDIT button. Tick on Redirect itechviha.com to www.itechviha.com and click on save button.

You can also create subdomain in bigrock and map it with your blogger blog. 

Author. Erwin Widianto

How To Create A HTML Sitemap Page For blogger.

How To Create A HTML Sitemap Page For blogger.

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Every blogger must have to create a HTML sitemap page for blogger blog. The difference between HTML and XML sitemap is, HTML sitemap for your reader (user) where XML sitemap to search engine crawls. The HTML sitemap are only visible to the users not to search engine crawl where XML sitemap can't understand by user. Every boggers add XML sitemap for better SEO, But what's about HTML sitemap? We discuss what is HTML sitemap before creating hypertext mark-up language (HTML) sitemap for your blogger blog. Below image shows an example of HTML sitemap

What is HTML Sitemap?

HTML sitemap page is list of all blog post. It helps search engine crawlers to crawl your blog properly 
and it helps to fast indexing your blog posts in search engine. Click here to check sitemap page of itechviha.

Steps To Create HTML Sitemap Page For Blogger:

Step 1:- Go to your blogger blog.

Step 2:- Now Navigate to Pages > New Page > Blank Page. 

Step 3:- Page Name/Title Site Map Switch it to HTML mode.

Step 4:- Paste below code in the post body.

<script src="http://fiftriani.googlecode.com/files/blogtoc-min.js"></script>
<script src="http://www.itechviha.com/feeds/posts/default?max-results=9999&amp;alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=loadtoc">

Step 5 :- Replace Red Link www.itechviha.com With Your Blog Address.

Step 6 :- Now Publish The Page. 

If there are any other ways to create HTML sitemap for blogger then please mention it in comment box.

Author. Erwin Widianto

Redirect Blogger Post to Another URL

Redirect Blogger Post to Another URL

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After the changing blogger post URL, We need to redirect your blogger post to a new URL. If you do not redirect new URL after change the blogger post URL at a time blogger generate broken link and reduce 404 error with your blogger blog and that are bad for SEO.

Now if I want to redirect http://itechviha.com/2015/07/custom-redirect-blogger-post-to-new-url.html to the http://www.itechviha.com/2015/07/redirect-blogger-post-url.html then we show here step by step.

• Blogger SEO Tips - How To Do SEO of Blogger Blog?

Step 1:- Login with your blogger account.

Step 2:- Go to setting >> Search preference.

Step 3:- Click on edit under the customs Redirects.

Step 4:- Fill the redirect link. (Enter old URL in first text box and enter new URL in the second text box also check the permanent option.)

Note: - Enter text after the domain name. For ex, www.exmaple.com/2015/07/redirect-post.html then enter only 2015/07/redirect-post.html

Step:- Click on save and then click on save changes button.
Step 5: - Click on save and then save changes button.

For Mobile,

That same perform for mobile URL to just add ?m=1 after URL. Let's see one ex,  add  2015/07/custom-redirect-blogger-post-to-new-url.html?m=1 in old link text box. Add 2015/07/custom-redirect-blogger-post-url.html?m=1 in new link text box. Click on save & now it's done.

Now you have a good idea of how to redirect blogger post to another URL. If you have any query then feel free to mention it in the comment box.

Author. Erwin Widianto

Blogger SEO Tips - How To Do SEO Of Blogger Blog?

Blogger SEO Tips - How To Do SEO Of Blogger Blog?

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Blogger/Blogspot is a blog publishing service that allows Multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It is one of the most efficient platforms for publishing your blog. Many people create blogs on the blogger platform & applying for google AdSense and earn good money. here I collect some Blogspot SEO tips and that SEO tips share with you. 

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is the most important  fact for blogger blog. First of all every person knows the important of SEO (Search Engine Optimization ) for your blogger/Blogspot blog. Without applying SEO Tips, you can't derive the organic traffic from search engines.  So today here I'll specify some little blogger/Blogspot SEO tips that make your blog SEO friendly and increase search engine visibility.

1. Optimize Blogger Blog Title

In Blogspot, When you use a new templates or use a defaults template at that time your Blogspot blog post title is followed by the blog title. Your blog post title is must be same as the blog title. This is called "blogger/Blogspot title swapping". This title help to improve search engine rankings and also increase organic traffic. 

• Optimize Blogger Blog Title For Better SEO.

2. Optimize Blog Post Heading Tags 

Optimize the blog post heading tag is the important part in the blogger after the main title which determines your search engine ranking. H1 tag is the most weightage tag  compare to H2 and H3. So that you should assign them an H1.

Step 1: Login With Blogger Account and Go To Template >> Edit
Step 2: Search Below Code In Search Section. 

<h3><data:title/></h3>

Step 3: Replace The Following Code With Below Code

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;’>
<title> <data:blog.pagename/> | <data.blog.title/></title>
 <b:else> <title><data.blog.pagetitle/></title>
</b:if>

Step 4: Save The Template. 

3. Add Robots.txt File

Robots.txt file contains a few lines of code. A robots.txt file restricts access of your blog to search engine robots. That mean you can restrict any web page of your blog from web crawlers so that it can not to indexed in search engines like your blog labels page, archive page or any other pages.

• How To Add Robots.txt File in Blogger?

4. Add Meta Tags in Blogspot Blog 

Meta Tag is HTML tag that provide the metadata (Data/Information) about your web page. Generally meta tags don't appear on the page. Meta tags exist only in the HTML. The Location of meta tags is inside the head tag because an only "head" section of the HTML is visible to the search engine.

Meta tags provide information such as short description about the page content, keywords which represent the page content, author name and etc. Many search engines use this meta tags information to describe your web page/site in search engine.

• How To Add SEO Meta Tags In Blogger?

5. Add NoFollow tags For All Labels in Blogspot

You have to disallow indexing of all label. It can be done through the robots.txt file and also done by adding NoFollow tags so there is no chance to index the labels.

Step 1: - Go to Template > Edit HTML and search for the below code.

<a expr:href='data:lable:url' rel='tag'>

Step 2: - Replace This Code With Below Code

<a expr:href='data:lable:url' rel='tag,nofollow'>

Step 3: - Save The Template.

6. Custom Robots Header Tags Setting

By using the custom robots header tags setting you can disable indexing of archive, pages and etc. 
Step 1: - Go to Settings >> Search Preferences >> "Enable custom robots header tags?" 

7. Submit Blogger Sitemap In To The Webmaster 

If your Blogspot blog is new then must needs to submit blogger sitemap to the Google Webmaster Tools. Its is useful for blogger blog and webmasters to get their blog index by the Google.You just need to verify your blog ownership and then submit a sitemap. Your blog sitemap tells google about your blog and its contents. Whenever you update your blog with new contents at that time your sitemap helps to index them easily in a search engine.

I hope now you will learn about the blogger SEO. here we love the comment either it's bad or good so feel free to mention it in the comment box. 

Author. Erwin Widianto

Add Robots.txt File In Blogger Blog

Add Robots.txt File In Blogger Blog

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As we discuss the important of Robots.txt file in old post blogger SEO tips. So that, it is important to create and add robots.txt file in blogger blog. Recently blogger added a new option which called search preferences into blogger that allow you to add custom robots header tags and custom robots.txt file. Every blogger must know about to robots.txt file before changing the robots.txt file because the wrong robot.txt file effect on your search engine results. 

What is Robots.txt File?

Robots.txt file contains a few lines of code. That interact with the search engines crawlers.  A robots.txt file restricts access to your blog by search engine robots that crawl the blog. The search engine sends their crawler to crawl new page on the blog. If crawlers find the new page and they will like to index at that time crawlers checks the robots.txt file. If you disallow a page in robots.txt file then crawlers will not index that page. 

Create And Add Robots.txt File 

Step 1: - Log in to blogger account.

Step 2: - Now navigate to Setting >> Search Preference. Click on edit in Custom Robots.txt.

Step 3: - Add bellow code into Custom Robots.txt  and Click on Save Change. 

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search/
Disallow: /search?q=* Allow: /
Sitemap: http://YOURBLOGADDRESS.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

Note:-
1) If you have less than 500 posts then the red code replace with below code.

Sitemap: http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500

2) If you have more than 500 posts then the red code replace with below code.

Sitemap: http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
Sitemap: http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=500&max-results=1000

#Explanation Of Robots.txt File

• User-agent: Mediapartners-Google :- This line indicates that you are using the Google Adsense if you are not using Google Adsense then remove it. 
• User-agent:* :-  Here user-agent calling the robot and * is for all search engine robots.
• Disallow: /search/ :- This command tells search engine crawlers/bots to not crawl label pages.
• Disallow: /search?q=* :- This command tells search engine crawlers/bots to not crawl search pages.
• Allow: / :- This code allows to index your blog.
• Sitemap :- This lines tells the search engine crawler to index the every new or updated pages and post. 

How To Check Robots.txt File?

You can check your robots.txt file by using below URL.

http://www.YOURBLOGADDRESS.BLOGSPOT.com/robots.txt

Once you visit the robots.txt URL you will see the entire code which adding in your blogger blog. See the below image.

Hope now you have a good knowledge of  robots.txt file. If you have any query then feel free to mention it in comment box. 

Author. Erwin Widianto

Change Blogger Post URL - Use Custom Permalink URL

Change Blogger Post URL - Use Custom Permalink URL

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To improve the search engine ranking of your blogger post, it is important to change/alter blogger post permalink URL. For the best practice in blogger SEO, each blog post contains your prime keyword in the URL. When you create or publish any post in blogger at that time blogger generate automatically post URL according to post name. For example, For the blog post title "Change Blogger Post URL - Use Custom Permalink URL" blogger generate a URL like "http://www.itechviha.com/2015/07/change-blogger-post-url-use-custom.html". Now you want to change this URL into "http://www.itechviha.com/2015/07/change-blogger-post-url.html" then what to do?  Here shows How to change the blogger post URL/Permalink.

Some Things To Do Before Changing Blogger Post URL

• Use Hyphens and Underscore. 
• Add Your Prime Keyword in URL.
• Keep Your Permalinks Short(Up to 4-6 Words). 
• Avoid Stop Words. (The, For, In etc..)

Change Blogger Post URL/Permalink

Step 1:
NOTE: If you have already Permalink option in Post settingsetting, then directly start from Step 3. 

Step 2: 
Open the post in which you want to edit(change) the URL or Create a new post.
(if you once, publish a post and then want to change URL, then edit a post and click on Revert to draft button  to enable permalink option)


Step 3: - Click Permalink in Post setting.

Step 4: - Now check on Custom Permalink Radio button and write the URL in a text box which you want to set finally don't forget to click the done button.

Step 5: - Now it is done and publish the post.

Note: - if you are changing the old post URL at that time needs to note the old blogger post URL before changing the URL. Because old post URL is submitted in search engine, on social bookmarking site and any other sites. So anyone come through the old URL, then he/she will get 404 page not found error. So you want to redirect your old URL to the new URL for maintaining ranking and backlinks. Here you can read how to redirect old URL to new URL using blogger Custom redirect.

Hope this article is useful for you feel free to mention it in below comment box.

Author. Erwin Widianto

Add SEO Meta Tags (Title, Keywords & Description) in Blogger

Add SEO Meta Tags (Title, Keywords & Description) in Blogger

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In blogger, SEO meta tags play an important role. By Adding meta tags in blogger, you can get a more and more organic traffic from search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc.

SEO Meta Tags plays an important role for your blogger blog. That's improved search engine visibility of your blog. So every blogger must know about the meta tags. In this article, you learn how to add meta tags in blogger blog. Before that, I'll provide some information about meta tags and its importance in SEO. 

What are Meta Tags and its importance in SEO?

Meta Tag is HTML tag that provide the metadata (Data/Information) about your web page. Generally meta tags don't appear on the page. Meta tags exist only in the HTML. The Location of meta tags is inside the head tag because an only "head" section of the HTML is visible to the search engine. 

Meta tags provide information such as short description about the page content,  keywords which represent the page content, author name and etc. Many search engines use this meta tags information to describe your web page/site in search engine. 

Where Meta Are Tags Appears?

In the above image, you can see the meta title and meta description of iTechViha. But the keywords are not appears in the search engine. To check keyword you can follow this steps. 

Step 1: Open The Blog (Here I want to check keyword of iTechViha blog. So I open this blog)

Step 2: After Successfully opens the blog press just Ctrl+U. By Pressing that the source code of this blog is open in your web browser.

Step 3: Now search the "Keyword" word by pressing Ctrl+F. Below image shows the meta keywords of the iTechViha blog. 

You can also check the description and title by searching "Description" and "Title".

Add Meta Tags in Blogger Blog

There are main four types of meta tags that essentially needs to add in every blogger blog. but many other meta tags available you can also add them.

Step 1 - Login With Your Blogger Account

Step 2 -  Go To Template >> Edit HTML (Note: - Before Edit Take Backup Of Your Blogger Template.)

Step 3 -  Now Find The <head> section ( you can use ctrl+f to find it.) 

Step 4 -  Under <head> section add below all codes.

<!--- meta tags for my blog-->

<!---- Title Tag Optimization------>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title>Your Blog Title</title> 
</b:if>
<!---- End Of Title Tag Optimization------>

<meta content='Your Blog Description' name='description'/>
 <meta content='Keyword-1,Keyword-2,Keyword-3' name='keywords'/>
 <meta content='index, follow' name='robots'/>
 <meta content='Author Name' name='Author'/>
 <meta content='Author Email Address' name='Email'/>
 <meta content='Language Name' name='language'/>
 <meta content='Country Name' name='country'/>
 <meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>

<!--- End of meta tags for my blog-->

Here needs to replace Your Blog Title with your blog title. Blog Title is not greater than 50-60 characters. 

Note:-  Here, The code between "<!---Title Tag Optimization--> " and "<!-- End of Title tag optimization" optimize your blogger blog post title by default it's the title of your blog. This optimized title is shown in the search engine result when the user searches any query. It's help to improve your search engine ranking. 


Step 5 - Change Your Data in Above with as per your requirement. 

Step 6 - Now It's Complete, Click on Save Template. 

Hope this article is useful for you. After adding meta tags in blogger you can also use the blogger SEO tips to improve the search engine ranking.

Author. Erwin Widianto

Blog Commenting Sites List - 2015

Blog Commenting Sites List - 2015

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High PR DoFollow Blog Commenting Sites are the one of the best place to get high- quality backlinks for your blog/websites. If you are bloggers and want to create backlinks for your blog then you came's at the right place because here I will specify a list of high PR blog commenting site. Also through, High PR blog commenting site you can increase a traffic on your blog. 

Difference Between DoFollow and NoFollow Links 

• Nofollow links do not allow search engine crawler to follow link.That means if the website owner is give a nofollow link, it does not pass on link juice. Only humans will be able to follow the links. In simple terms NoFollow Links generate only traffic on your blog. 

• Dofollow links allow search engine crawler(all search engines) to follow them and reach to the website. It giving us a backlink. Search engine and humans will be able to follow the links.

Benefits Blog Commenting?

• Get Quality Backlinks.
• Get High Search Engine Ranking (Because You Build Quality Backlinks Through High PR Blog Commenting sites.)
• Get Good Amount Of  Traffic To Your Own Blog.
• You Will Learn Something New.
• Gets More blogging Ideas.
• Get Idea About How To Create Commentable Content. 
• Enhance Your Writing Skills.

No.	Blog Commenting Sites	Page Rank
1	http://www.smh.com.au	8
2	http://www.theage.com.au	8
3	http://www.meetup.com	7
4	http://canberratimes.com.au	7
5	http://www.cc.com	7
6	http://www.mrqe.com	7
7	http://www.adweek.com	7
8	http://www.politico.com	7
9	http://siarchives.si.edu	6
10	http://www.zillow.com/blog/pro	6
11	http://alltop.com	6
12	http://globeofblogs.com	6
13	http://missoulian.com	6
14	http://helenair.com	6
15	http://www.wiscnews.com	6
17	http://www.searchenginejournal.com	6
18	http://btemplates.com	6
19	http://www.japantoday.com	6
20	http://globeofblogs.com	6
21	http://host.madison.com	6
22	http://missoulian.com	6
23	http://weblogtoolscollection.com	6
24	http://w3blog.dk	6
25	http://www.intenseblog.com	6
26	http://www.jiscdigitalmedia.ac.uk/blog	6
27	http://links.org.au	6
28	http://helenair.com	6
29	http://www.wiscnews.com	6
30	http://www.finweb.com	6
31	http://democratherald.com	6
32	http://www.redstate.com	6
33	http://www.codeproject.com	6
34	http://www.zillow.com/blog	6
35	http://engineering.zillow.com	6
36	https://www.2checkout.com/blog	6
37	http://www.problogger.net/blog	5
38	http://www.exeideas.com	5
39	http://poststar.com	5
40	http://www.pmpnews.com	5
41	http://www.quickonlinetips.com	5
42	http://siouxcityjournal.com	5
43	http://www.comptalks.com	5
44	http://moz.com/blog	5
45	http://www.dailyblogtips.com	5
46	http://blog.ruski.co.za	5
47	www.kongtechnology.com	5
48	http://www.seobythesea.com	5
49	http://unbounce.com/blog	5
50	http://exeideas.com	5
51	http://www.currybet.net	5
52	https://www.ziprecruiter.com/blog	5
53	http://www.animhut.com	4
54	http://www.forthelose.org	4
55	http://dmiracle.com	4
56	http://www.kimwoodbridge.com	4
57	http://famousbloggers.net	4
58	http://newcritics.com	4
59	http://www.bizchickblogs.com	4
60	http://www.shesgotclients.com	4
61	http://blondish.net	4
62	http://magemojo.com	4
63	http://www.becomeablogger.com	4
64	http://www.growmap.com	4
65	http://www.bizchickblogs.com	4
66	http://beerbloggersconference.org	4
67	http://www.seowizz.net	4
68	http://www.kimwoodbridge.com	4
69	http://magemojo.com	4
70	http://blogengage.com	4
71	http://seo-hacker.com	4
72	http://growmap.com	4
73	http://www.basicblogtips.com	4
74	http://comluv.com	4
75	http://blog.mofuse.com	4
76	http://mackcollier.com	4
77	http://basicblogtips.com	4
78	http://www.cravingtech.com	4
79	http://santamariatimes.com	4
80	http://blogstash.com	4
81	http://fatfightertv.com	4
82	http://www.myrecycledbags.com	4
83	http://www.techtricksworld.com	3
84	http://www.stayonsearch.com	3
85	http://performinsider.com	3
86	http://www.shalusharma.com	3
87	http://www.techehow.com	3
88	http://www.itechcode.com	3
89	http://monetizeblogging.com	3
90	http://www.johnchow.com/blog	3
91	http://weblogbetter.com	3
92	http://www.smartbloggerz.com	3
93	http://www.benspark.com	3
94	http://www.benspark.com	3
95	http://techatlast.com	3
96	http://www.thevirtualasst.com	3
97	http://www.shoutmeloud.com	3
98	http://www.steamfeed.com	3
99	http://buildbookbuzz.com	3
100	http://weblogbetter.com	3
101	http://www.techtricksworld.com	3
102	http://www.techgyd.com	3
103	http://www.blogussion.com	2
104	http://www.bloggingtips.com	2
105	http://kikolani.com	2
106	http://www.tomfanelli.com	2
107	http://wassupblog.com	2
108	http://www.guideandnews.com	2
109	http://www.wpcypher.com	2
110	http://www.seoallrounder.com	2

Here Specify all blog commenting sites are manually verified by me because I want to give my best to my blog readers. 

Hope this article is useful for you if you have any query then feel free to mention it in the comment box.

Author. Erwin Widianto

How to Create Subdomain in Bigrock And Setup/Map it With Blogger

How to Create Subdomain in Bigrock And Setup/Map it With Blogger

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if you recently buy a new domain from bigrock, then first needs to setup bigrock custom domain to blogger blog. Aftre that you can create subdomain in bigrock and setup/map it with your new blogger blog.

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What is Subdomains ?

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Sub domains is domain which is part of primary domain. Let's take example to understand.

• Primary Domain:-  itechviha.com
• Subdomain:-     blog.itechviha.com, about.itechviha.com

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Steps To Create Subdomain in Bigrock

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Step 1: - Login With Your Bigrock Account.

Step 2: - After Login Click on domain name (Domain for create subdomain)

Step 3: - choose DNS Management that appears in a right side menu.

Step 4: - Now click on Manage DNS.

Step 5: - Now popup window is open, in this window click CNAME Records.

Step 6: - Now Click On Add CNAME Record.

Step 7: - Now the form will display. Fill this with following values.
Host Name = Sub-Domain Name (which you want to create)
Value = ghs.google.com
TTL = 38800
Then Click on Add Record 

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Map/Setup Subdomain With Blogger Blog

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Step 1: - Login with your blogger account.

Step 2 :- Go to Setting >> Basic, Click on Setup Third Party Url for your blog under Blog Address.

Step 3: - Now Add Sub-domain that is created by you and Click on Save Button.

Now big rock subdomain successfully mapped with your blogger blog.
At least 5-10 minutes required for ready to use.

Hope this helpful for you.....!!

Author. Erwin Widianto