Implement SEO tricks in Blogger Blog
Search Engine Traffic is most valuable traffic source for all successful websites. It gives you the most natural visitors and it has been observed ( & accepted ) by many website owners that there is a direct relation between your search engine traffic and Adsense earning. So, Search Engine Optimization is the most important for your websites and blog. Google has released a “Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide“, which is very useful specially for the beginners.
Misfortunately, Bloggers using Blogger.comdon’t have as great SEO tools as the WordPress users have. Here, We are suggesting five ways to implement Google SEO tips (described in its starter guide) on Blogger platform with a hope that these would help you in getting more search engine optimization.
- Add Description to Individual pages : Google describes the importance of these tags as “Adding description meta tags to each of your pages is always a good practice in case Google cannot find a good selection of text to use in the snippet“.
But, Blogger doesn’t provide any direct option for inserting this tag to individual pages. We suggest you this hack to insert description tag in individual pages : After publishing your post, insert the following code in the <head> section of your template -
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "POST-URL"'>
<meta content='keyword1,keyword2' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='your description' name='description'/>
</b:if>
- Optimize your URL Structure : By default, Blogger picks first few words of your post title for creating the post URL. for example, if your post title is “How to get a Free and Reliable web hosting with Free Domain ?“, Blogger will generate the URL as : yourblogurl/year/month/how-get-free-and-reliable.html. Now, you know what is going wrong
To make your URL more meaningful, put just the relevant Keywords in the title box while creating a post and publish it. Just after publishing, edit the post, and replace the keywords with a proper Title. Hence, you can have a URL like : yourblogurl/year/month/free-hosting-domain-reliable-dns.html
- Make use of Edit HTML tab : the post editor of Blogger offers two tabs/modes : Compose and HTML. Most of the users (specially those having non-technical background), avoid using the HTML mode. But, believe me HTML is the easiest language in the universe. You can learn & master the basics of HTML in less than 1 hour.
After composing each post, just switch to the “Edit HTML” tab and do desired modifications such as :
- Edit the links : Modify the normal <a href=”URL”>Anchor</a> and add title or rel=”nofollow” attributes.
- Optimize Images : Add alt and title attributes to the <img src=”imageurl”> tags, which is not possible in compose mode.
- Add Heading tags, <h1> etc.
- Submit Sitemaps to Google: In Blogger, you have no option to create or modify XML sitemaps. Still, you can submit ATOM.XMLfile of your blog as alternative sitemap.
For a better result, submit atom.xml with attributes like : atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100. Actually, atom.xml consists just 25 latest post URLs and to submit all of them we need to use attributes start-index=1&max-results=100.
- Use a better traffic tracker : Traffic Trackers are tools to analyze your visitors. There are several other Web analytics programs, who serve better than Google Analytics. Try out them and measure the impact of optimizations you make to your site, and test more tricks.
Cheers!
Link : Search Engine Optimization Starter Guide
30 Comments on “Implement SEO tricks in Blogger Blog”
Thanks for the info! Proved very useful.
I like everything in bloggger expect its WYSIWYG editor its so limited! if I use the default option to add images it always goes to the top.. its always better to just “edit html”
Thanks for the tip. It was greatly helpful for my new blog.
Thankou
@BSEsensex & @Reeteshinator : Thanks for your feedback. Stay tune for more tricks
Thanks a lot for this tutorial !
Hi, thanks for the gr8 tips.. but i am confused can you please put the tutorial so make more sense… for this one.. (insert description tag in individual pages : After publishing your post, insert the following code in the ) .. how can yo please be more specific ..
Thanks
Hello,
Thanks for sharing the SEO tricks. I am am new to blogger. Could you please explain how to edit tag for adding keywords and Description after publishing the post. I am not able to see any option in my blogger account to do this.
Thank you.
thanks for the gr8 tips… really appreciated.. really worked like charm getting indexed.
plz do share some more……
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Now that was the one i was looking for Excellent post. Thanks.
dont submit your sitemap to google, i did that and notices very low traffic afterwards, u can test first
Wow! Super SEO trick for Blogger machine! Thanks for share! I love it!!!
nice Thanks!
thank’s
thank’s once for all share information. I have been applying some of the explanation for my blog, but the last two I have not applied. Hopefully by following the advice you, my blog will be the better
Benim sitemap de bir kaç hata var ama neden bilmiyorum.
Great tips!
Thanks for your useful tips on SEO
its very new information for me, gratefull thanks
Many Thanks for this helpful tips
Regards
Interesting article and some good advice. I always wondered if there was a way to somehow manage the URL structure, but never thought about creating a post title with just the keywords, and then go back and edit the title for the visitors.
Thanks for that tip, I’ll have to use it for my posts.
Thats nice tips… I am still looking to do some more to get my blog out in search engine.. and i can see the difference in search results nowadays. Within 2 weeks i can see its ranking in search engine for huge keywords competition. eg, “world of Science”.. Currently in the 3rd page when i am giving away this comment.
thank u for ur post on blogs
all tips are very usefull for because i am a new blogging line….
very great tips! hope this can make mine to be a popular blog. thanks
As a webdesigner myself , I’m truely glad to see that someone thought to post this topic.
All too many people out there don’t grasp the concept of what all is involved in our field, and I think also we’re all too often underrated
or taken for granted. Never the less I’m glad to see that you may feel the same way I do , thanks so much for your blog!
what plugins you use for the tags?
Please answer
great tips..thanks
Nice! thanks for the tricks. I have to put meta tags for all post?
Di I have to add meta tags on each posts? Or what?