Sunday, June 16, 2013

SEO optimize blogger template

A blogger template with better SEO is very usefull because it is indexed in Search Engines. Optimizing templates with exact procedure will not harm you instead of your visitors will enjoy the fruitful changes that you have done in your template. For blogger platform you need to make some changes on blogger templates to fit your needs and also to fit the search engine needs. if you are trying to make your existing blogger template search engine friendly, then you have arrived to the correct destination.Below I will explain How to SEO optimize blogger template
Optimize blogger post titles

Post title is one of the most important elements in your blog in the terms of ranking well in search engines. If your template is not optimized for correct post titles then you may noticed most of your post first shows your blog name, then it shows your post name. The reason why you should post titles at the beginning is because users are more likely to search for specific post content rather than the actual name of your blog, so having the post titles at the beginning increases your chances of being found.
  • Login to your blogger account, select your blog
  • Go to template edit HTML, expand widget template
  • Find this code using (CTRL+F)
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
  • Replace the above code with the following code
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> 
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>

 Adding H2 tags to blogger post titles

This is an importance SEO blogger trick to increase search results. Heading tags helps to search engines to recognize what is important in your blog. H2 tags are of greater significance because these little tags allow search crawler to identify which keyword to rank higher in search results. So we are going to change blogger template by changing H3 tags to H2 tags.
  • Login to your blogger account, select your blog
  • Go to template edit HTML, expand widget template
  • Now search for following or similar codes in your template.
<h3 class='post-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>
  • After finding code just replace H3 to H2 or simply add below code instead of above
<h2 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>
      </h2>

You have to wait around a week till the crawlers are updating their history, after a week your blog receive several traffic from search engines.

Adding Meta description and keyword tags on blogger template

Most of the blogger templates available in online does not have proper SEO tags. By adding Meta tags and keywords in blogger template manually is better method for optimization of blogger template.
  • Go to your blog, go to template
  • Edit html search for <head> and just bellow it paste the following code
<meta content='text/html; charset=utf-8' http-equiv='Content-Type'/>
<meta content='Description_Here' name='description'/>
<meta content='Keywords_Here.' name='keywords'/>
  • Change your Description here with your content blog description
  • Change your keywords here with 10 to 15 keywords that relates your site niche.
After the above successful implementation of SEO trick, crawlers can be easily able to learn much more about your blog through Meta description and keyword tags.

By apply these three tips to your blog you will surely notice a significant increase in your blog traffic.  Thanks for reading, leave your valuable comments below

Source : http://www.techvench.com/
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