SEO Blogger Tutorial

Index blog to google webmaster tools

noreply@blogger.com (Ami) — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:20:00 +0000

How to index a Blogger/Blogspot blog to Google webmaster tools?
Google webmaster tools is a program launched by Google to help webmasters.
Google webmaster tools helps us to diagnose errors in our blog or site, other wise we are not aware of those errors. By correcting them we can boost our ranking in Google.
Google webmaster tools help us to make Google friendly blog. Sign up with Google webmaster tools to make use of these tools.
when you will sign in with your blogger account(Google account) it will as you to add selected blogs.
Mark blogs you want to enter to webmaster tools Dashboard.
If that blog is not verified verify it by following method.

Add a meta tag to your site's home page

Copy the code and past it below <head>tags of blogger HTML. (design->Edit HTML) and hit save template.
After that come to the webmaster tools and click on Verify button
you will see:

Search queries

Crawl errors

Links to your site

Keywords

Sitemaps

but with no data available. click on Submit a Sitemap below sitemaps.
submit sitemap as:

www.yourblogname.blogspot.com/rss.xml

www.yourblogname.blogspot.com/atom.xml

Google will take some time to index all your blog posts and pages. Immediately when your blog is indexed all above 5 results will appear. Then it will be so easy for your to diagnose and correct errors in your blog, making it search engine friendly.

Add meta tags to your homepage

noreply@blogger.com (Ami) — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 09:06:00 +0000

Many people does not know what meta tags are. When i started blogging i was also not aware of these tags. Meta tags or keywords are those tags or phrases which tell search engine about your blog. About what my blog is. For this blog i used keywords like (seo blogger tutorial, blogger seo, search engine optimization etc) these tags describe my blog. How you can enter these keywords and description to your blog ?
Go to edit html section of blogger template→add following code under title tags

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta name="description" content="add description" />
<meta name="keywords" content="add keywords" />
</b:if>

Add your blog description and Keywords.
Description should be 200 characters not more than this
Keyword: maximum 20 separated by commas

Blog title Hack with keywords

noreply@blogger.com (Ami) — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 13:04:00 +0000

Default blogger title code shows BLOG TITLE - PAGE TITLE
and it is very very important in SEO to show PAGE TITLE - BLOG TITLE
following piece of code will do this job. Edit template and replace following code:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

with the following 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>

You can also add some keywords into your title tags as i am using some keywords in page title. This will also help you in optimization

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

Avoid Duplicat content - SEO tip

noreply@blogger.com (Ami) — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 10:10:00 +0000

In order to avoid duplicate content in your blog post, turn off archive. Google and other search engines have implemented duplicate content penalty. This might decrease your search engine ranking. The archive page in blogger blog can create problem in SEO blogger. Because of archive page your page can come twice in search results . How to avoid duplicate content in blogger?

Go to settings→ Archiving→and select no archive

if still you want to add Archives then you have to stop search engine to crawl to your archive page this will be don by adding the following code in<head> section of template

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;archive&quot;'>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow" />
</b:if>

seo tutorial for blogger for google ranking

noreply@blogger.com (Ami) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 04:15:00 +0000

Search Engine Optimization

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) means a lot of different things as compare to other people. In short SEO is a strategy that makes you to improve your web site or blog search engine ranking. It also means to design your website, blog or content with such elements that increase your page ranking in search engine without spending money. The goal of SEO is to increase your web or blog traffic and visitors by ranking your web in search engine. When you search on a topic on google it shows you millions of results for that. Doing the same thing does not means not to do, it means to do the same thing in a different way that is called SEO. today blogger has more than 3 million users that blog every day. It does not means that you do not blog. It means you do in a different way that is by means of SEO. Use search engine optimization tools and elements to built your blog so that is become different than other people who are blogging. Use the following tips provided to improve search engine ranking.

which topic will Rank your Blog?

Always select that topic about which you have full knowledge and you can write about that. Once you have selected the topic, search it and read the top most result and compare your knowledge with that if you think you know more, than start writing your content. In this way you can take its place in search engine. If you think your topic very important and you want to write than keep on focusing by buying book and studying further on Internet, first improve your knowledge and than write this will improve your ranking in search engines.

Blogger can do well in SEO

Find out the editor software in which you are going to write your content. As i am talking about the blogger, and i think it is the best one of all others because it provides you dual mode of editing content (html editor/text editor). I also strongly recommend the use of blogger software.

What keywords are best for your blog?

Most of people do not know, what are keywords ? Keywords are not what you call your content, stuff or products. These are phrases that your visitor will type in search engine to find your blog. Keywords are two to five words phrases that you expect your visitor will type to find your blog.

Most of people write single word keywords, these are not well targeted because single words have a tough competition among the millions of sites. If you think about a word "free" it can do nothing alone. If you search it in any search engine your will find more than 10 millions results, so don't write it as single keyword make its phrases from 2 to 5 words. This will work better. Same is the case with "download" and other words in relevant fields. Longer keywords are easier to rank well. Finding keywords is not so difficult just think yourself as a visitor and write keywords.

What your content is and tells about ? and what problem does it solves ?

Check out tags of your competitors website

Make related searches on search engines

Take help from google keywords suggestion tools such as "google sets" and "google suggest"

The goal of keywords is to bring traffic to your site or blog. Type separate keywords for each page and post of your blog. Don't write more than 20 keywords for each in this way you will loose your keyword density.

Use small alphabets and spellings should b correct. Do not use hyphens because most of search engines treat it as space. If you write "e-mail" it will be considered as "e mail" not as "email" so you may loose some traffic that search with "email" other wise you can also get some traffic that type "e-mail or e mail". In such case use with and without hyphen.

Role of Meta description tag in SEO

When we talk about meta tags, two terms come in our mind, keyword meta tags and description meta tags. Keywords are already described. Meta description tags also have the same importance as keywords have. In these tags you describe your content or page in few lines. Some search engines my display meta description tags as par of search result but keywords tags may not be displayed. Meta description tags should be few sentences in the form of a paragraph and use your various keywords and describe your page and its purpose. Many search engines shows description snippets in their search results. Some time search engine could not read your page, some time too many pictures or videos are there in that case meta description tags play very important role in finding your site. Meta tags also tell a search engine about the language of your site or blog. Without meta tags your blog will not be shown even to a single person.

Meta tags for blogger

Importance of blog title in Blog Ranking

Blog, page or post title is one of the most important attributes of the blog in search engine optimization. A good page title along with meta description improves page ranking.

Do not make title like "well come to my blog" "well come to SEO Tutorial Blog" same way some people use "software gallery,all type of software.download software" these are wrong and decrease page ranking. People think that such page title will drag traffic that will type any of their page title element. In this case search engine fails to crawl your page, and could not recognise your blog or web.

In blogger if you don't write title than it shows numbers after your blog URL when you open that page. In all above cases search engine fails to find what type of blog is it ?. This is also not good. what you have to do is to select a proper page title.

Your page title should have keyword in them, not all the keywords, just one. Select separate title for each page or post.

SEO Tip

Use page title hack for blogger that hacks title of each page from (blog title+page or post title) to (page or post title+blog title). Without title hack if you publish a post or page it will show blog title before the post title. In order to make your blog Search engine Friendly use title hack that will hack title of your blog, and it will show post or page title before the blog title



title hack for blogger

Repeated Key words Improve Ranking

Try to repeat your keywords in your content. For example your keyword is "SEO TUTORIAL". Write it in content for the repeated time in such way that SEO come at one place and TUTORIAL come at other part of the content. Make Headings, subheadings, bullets for keywords and also use ALT attribute in image for keywords. You can set ALT attribute manually in HTML of blogger image. Before uploading image files or other use their name as keywords.

Irrelevant content decrease Ranking

If your blog contain irrelevant article visitor will visit only once and he will not find it help full. Such article can not gain the attention of the visitor. So always write to the point content.
Similarly do not copy others content, if you do so search engine will find a copy of both and will not rank your page.
Concentrate upon the quality of the content not upon the quantity. There is a lot of quality content on Internet search it and read for more knowledge to write your own. You can also take help from your friends to write for you or look search engines for additional data.
If you cell products or write about some thing than contact to the manufactures or company site to get official data from them.
If you can not write good content then you can buy articles from writers, or say to your friends to write for you and you will pay him money.

Link Exchange

Search on your topic and find top Blogs about your article. See whether the author allows you link exchange or not. If he does then exchange link with him. People who know well about marketing will surely exchange link with you. Past a link of his blog on your and say him to past your link. In this way you can get a good sum of traffic.

optimize blogger with seo

noreply@blogger.com (Ami) — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 15:24:00 +0000

SEO importance

1.SEO makes blogger blog visible to search engines so that crawler or spider can access your blog.

2.By applying SEO tips to your blog it is easily indexed in search engines.

3.SEO increase blog traffic. Your blog is shown to people in search results. Therefor, visitors to your blog are increased.

4.When your blog is indexed and have traffic ultimately your blog ranking will be improved and possibilities for back links will be more.

5.It is a bit difficult to apply seo tips to your blog once you have created. So always keep seo tips in your mind while making new blog. Because created blog is once crawled by spider and without SEO it did not find it useful so it will not read it again if you apply seo. In this case crawler will come once or twice a month. But making blog by keeping seo tips in your mind lets spider to crawl your blog every day. What you have to do is to update it regularly by adding content.

6.When a spider comes to your blog daily it will automatically take it to the top of the page. I don't say that it will be #1 but surely it will be on the first page.

Today every blogger wants

Traffic/Visitors

First page in google

Advertise more/Earn more

Top ranking Ranking blog

google friendly Blog

The answer to all is building search engine friendly blog, adding meta keywords by using seo tips, and by following other seo tips for blogger. Without this you will spend so much time to bring your blog up, but all will be in vain. I think without seo, blogging is useless and wastage of time. The goal of search engine is to provide the best knowledge of their demand. Like websites blogger is also a marketers place. I already have told you that seo means doing same thing in different way.

Important SEO tips to write content

Writing content in a blogger post is very important in seo. After meta tags and keywords, content of blog is important in ranking. Use the following seo tips for blog post to write content Make at least one heading of H1 tags at the top of blog post. Don't make so many headings as search engine feels difficulty to read so many headings in H1 tag and a lot of bold content Place your keywords in heading tags as well as in sub headings. Place keywords in paragraphs. Heading should be similar to post title and keywords should be similar to heading. This is called keywords overlapping and compels search engine to rank your site at the top of those which have less overlapping keywords. Place keywords in image alt tags. Don't put more than 1 keyword in image alt tags. Name of the image file should be small. Place keywords in the form of bullet list showing the importance of your topic. For example make bullet list of advantages, importance, what can do, about, etc of the product you are discussing or topic, tips or tutorial. Place your keywords in links if possible and use navigation. Don't write to many keywords that user could not find any thing except keywords. Don't let your user to think that you are writing for search engine not for the visitors. Write god keywords in the beginning of the topic. Spread the keywords in the whole content.