easybloggertricksandtips

Make your Blogger Blog and Template SEO Friendly

noreply@blogger.com (jegaraja sundaresan) — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:43:00 +0000

As we all know that most of our visitors come from search engines. But what if your blogger blog is not optimized for search engines ?? According to servey on 80 % of blogger blogs are penalized by search engines and are not treated important, resulting in lowwer pagerank and low no. of visitors to your blog and blog owners don't even know that. I had a nice conversation with JAMES on SEO and he Told me that he receives over 3000 visitors per day by google search engine by just following some simple SEO Tips.
There Are Four main things what seacrh engines cares while crawling your site

1. Domain Name

2. Post Page Titles

3. Meta Description

4. Post Title Tags

1. Domain Name

Selecting a domain name is the most important thing in SEO. For Example if you are having a site regarding blogger templates than your domain name must be revelant to it like www.classicalmusic.com or www.classicalmusic.blogspot.com
so that when visitor searches for classicalmusic on search engine than your website will be shown first in Results page even though Your PageRank is 0.

2.Post Page Titles

This is the Title of Your Post url. By Default Blogger Blogs Shows your homepage title followed by Post title which looks weired to Visitors and search engines may consider it as a Duplicate content
For Example : my homepage Title is Best Blogger Widgets Plugins and Tools and Suppose you are viewing this post whose title is Make Your Blogger Blog and Template 100% SEO Friendly than it will show like Best Blogger Widgets Plugins and Tools Make your Blogger Blog and Template 100% SEO Friendly
To change it so that Post Title Appears first Followed by Homepage Title visit This Link

3. Meta Description

Meta Description are the Tags that describes your blog to search engines it contains description of your blog as well as keywords regarding your blog content. Most of search engines use this data to rank your blog.
To add META Description Tags To Your Blog Visit This Link

4.Post Title Tags

This is the Title of your Blog Post which you make while Publishing posts in Blogger.This is the most important part of your blog as it describes about your post content.Most of blogger templates uses <h3> tags for Post Title which is consider as a normal content of your blog by Search engines.Even Blogger Default Template Minimia uses <h3> tag which is not SEO Friendly. To make it more revelant to Search Engines and make it SEO Friendly follow the Following Steps..
Login to Blogger
Go to Layout---> Edit Html
Check on Expand Widget Content and Search For This Lines of Code

check for lines

<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h3 class='post-title entry-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</h3>
</b:if>

replace them with

<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h1 class='post-title entry-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</h1>
</b:if>

then save template

Make Blog Title with Post Title in Blogger Blogs for SEO Optimization

noreply@blogger.com (jegaraja sundaresan) — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:39:00 +0000

By default, blogger blogs shows blog title first followed by page title, which is not visitor friendly and also not seo friendly. According to search engines its much better if our keywords in title comes first rather than blog title. Its to ensure that search engines robots and spiders crawls your keywords first for higher ranking and better place in search results. By simply swapping the position of the post title with the blog title, we can obtain significant improvement in the search engine result

To change title to Post title followed by blog title

Go to your blogspot dashboard.
click on layout. Again click on Edit html.
Now find the bellow code

and replace it with this code

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

To change title to just post title

Find the bellow code

and replace it with this code

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

save template

Best Way to Add Meta tag Description

noreply@blogger.com (jegaraja sundaresan) — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 03:39:00 +0000

One way to improve SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is to put meta tags in your blogspot blogs. Some of you may ask what is mete tags ?? Meta-tags are pieces of code within your website that contain information about each page. These tags are supposed to tell search engines and users what the page is about.. In short putting a meta tag description in your blog helps search engines, telling what your blog is about. In keyword meta tag you put in words relevant to your blog contents. This is the most important part in terms of SEO.
With this trick you can limit meta description tag to Home Page Only and not in your post, so that meta tags doesn't get duplicate. Google will use an excerpt from the post content as search result content snippet.

Lets See How To Do It
Log into Blogger
Go To Layout --> Html
Find This Code

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

Then put the meta tags code immediately below it as in below given format

save the template