Got lots of time today so i decided to read along blogs about Seo. then I stumble upon a blogger user that has an article about SEO on blogger. Let’s have it a try.
SEO! SEO! what the hell is SEO? I know many of you guys who own a blog never thought or never find it necessary to know about it. But SEO- Search Engine Optimization is one of the basic thing a blogger should know.
Lets Take a case Study of my current blog to make things simpler.
Title tag.
Have a look at the chethstudios page and you will notice a change in the format when compared to a basic Minima Blogger template.
The Default Title style for free basic blogger templates is " Blog Name: POST Name ". Lets change it to a more neat Format " Post Name | Blog Name " This is one of the basic things a SEO guy will tell you and it surely what our Mr Google will like. WE will use an else tag so that it becomes a bit more SEO friendly.
For Example Lets convert it to:
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Have A look at the screenshot:
Dashboard > Layout > Edit HTML and check the "Expand Widget Templates" option.
Important Step: Now as a precautionary measure please download your template so that you have an emergency backup if in case you create any errors :)
First locate the code in your Blogger Template:
<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>
and replace it by,
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <title> <data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/> </title> <b:else/> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if> </b:if>
Sitemap.
Login into Google Webmaster Tools
And Please add a sitemap to your blogger blog. XML Sitemaps — Submit a Sitemap to tell Google about pages on your site they might not otherwise discover. Google adheres to Sitemap Protocol 0.9 as defined by sitemaps.org.
More of this here.