SEO Tips for Blogger / Blogspot Blogs to Increase Traffic
The one question which i have been asking to myself from a few days.Is Blogger SEO friendly?I researched on this topic and i found that "No, Blogger is not much SEO friendly". If we see the Blogger biggest rival Worpress, it provides many plugins with which you can easily make your blog search engine optimized but in case of Blogger it is not so easy because you can't use plugins in Blogger.
Search engine optimization is very important for any website or blog to index higher in search engines.Therefore, I want to share some important tips that can help your blogger blog rank higher in search engines and ultimately you will get huge traffic.
These category pages are blocked by robots.txt but they still have pagerank.
Every page of the blog and website has pagerank power and the link to external pages such as categories and social bookmarking result in sharing pagerank power. Therefore, you should add rel='nofollow' to your categpries and social bookmarking links.
Below are the examples.
First example is for social bookmarking link and second is for category link.
SEO friendly title are either "Post Title" only or "Post Title | Blog Title" not "Blog Title | Post Title". I use the first one for my blog.
If you don't have search engine friendly title then find below code in your template code.
If you don't want your blog title to appear in search engines, then delete the highlighted text.
These are some tips which are in my mind right now. If you have any extra tips feel free to add it and if you have any questions about above tips, do tell me and i will try my best to help you.
Search engine optimization is very important for any website or blog to index higher in search engines.Therefore, I want to share some important tips that can help your blogger blog rank higher in search engines and ultimately you will get huge traffic.
1. Add rel='nofollow' to your Categories and Social Bookmarking Links
Do you know that Google do not crawl category pages in Blogger? Google don't know what is on the page but still index these pages. Check out the below screenshot.
Every page of the blog and website has pagerank power and the link to external pages such as categories and social bookmarking result in sharing pagerank power. Therefore, you should add rel='nofollow' to your categpries and social bookmarking links.
Below are the examples.
<a href='http://twitter.com/bloggertemps' rel='nofollow' target='blank' title='Follow on Twitter!'>
<a expr:href='data:label.url "?max-results=5" ' rel='nofollow'>
First example is for social bookmarking link and second is for category link.
2. Use SEO Friendly Title
Two type of titles can be said SEO friendly.See below examples.
SEO friendly title are either "Post Title" only or "Post Title | Blog Title" not "Blog Title | Post Title". I use the first one for my blog.
If you don't have search engine friendly title then find below code in your template code.
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
Replace it with below code.<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>
If you don't want your blog title to appear in search engines, then delete the highlighted text.
3. Use Keywords in Title
Always use important keywords in the title of the blog post.Most important thing for search engines while crawling your post is the title of the post.4. Use Meta Tags
Use meta tags to tell search engines what your blog and blog post is about.You can read more about it here.5. Increase Backlinks
Backlinks are important not only for blogger blogs but also all websites over the internet. More backlinks pointing to your blog will increase your blog authority and ultimately your ranking in search engines. Follow below techniques to gain more backlinks.- Link Exchange: Exchange links with other blogs in your niche especially the blogs with higher PR.
- Comment on DoFollow Blogs and Forums: Comment on blogs which are DoFollow. Find blogs in your niche using Comluv and Top Commentators widget. Keep one thing in mind, do not spam blogs with irrelevant and comments like "Nice Post". Only write comments which add value to the article. Join high PR DoFollow forums and add your blog signature. Take part in forum discussions.
- Guest Posting: Guest post on other blogs in your niche and gain Promotion+Backlinks+Traffic.
- Deep linking: Make backlinks for not only the homepage of the blog but also the deep links such as "Blog Post Links". It will help your posts to rank higher in SERPs(Search Engine Result Pages.
6. Write Quality Content
You might have read it many times but it is the most important thing. 'Content is King' and this king will never die in the blogosphere. Search engines always like unique and quality content. If you have good material on your blog, your readers will come back to your blog because "Good Content" is the only reason for the readers to become loyal to your blog.These are some tips which are in my mind right now. If you have any extra tips feel free to add it and if you have any questions about above tips, do tell me and i will try my best to help you.
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How to add meta tags to blogger post
Meta tags are very important for the search engine optimization of the blog.Meta tags help search engine crawlers know about the content of the blog,website or post.Two types of meta tags are generally used by webmasters.First is description tag which makes search engines know what content is about and second is keywords meta tag which defines the important keywords used in the content.
Keywords meta tags are less important than description meta tags because many search engines including Google are not taking them into consideration while indexing and ranking web pages.Now I will tell you how you can efficiently insert meta tags in blogger.
Insert the below meta tags just after the above line.
Replace the highlighted description with your own which should be relevant to your blog and highlighted keywords with important keywords of your blog.These meta tags will only be applicable for your blog home page.If you remove the second line in the above code,then these meta tags will be applicable for both home page and blog posts but you should not do this because every blog post have different description and keywords.Using same description and keywords for each blog post will result in penalty by search engines.
Note: Do not use the same keyword more than three times because you can be penalized by search engines.
Suppose you want to add meta tags to the post with the following link.
http://www.bloggertemp.com/2010/02/tip-to-create-static-pages-in-blogger.html
Insert the below code just after the meta tags tags code which i mentioned above.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://www.bloggertemp.com/2010/02/tip-to-create-static-pages-in-blogger.html"'>
<meta content='Tip to create static pages in blogger easily' name='description'/>
<meta content='static pages,blogger,tip' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
Replace the highlighted link of the post with your own.Replace description and keywords with the one which is relevant to your post.
If you have any problem in implementing meta tags please mention it in comments.
Keywords meta tags are less important than description meta tags because many search engines including Google are not taking them into consideration while indexing and ranking web pages.Now I will tell you how you can efficiently insert meta tags in blogger.
How to add meta tags to blogger home page
Go to Layout > Edit HTML and search for the below code using CTRL+F.<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
Insert the below meta tags just after the above line.
<META CONTENT='FOLLOW,INDEX' NAME='robots'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content='Free Blogger Templates, Widgets, Hacks, Help, Tips and Tricks for bloggers using the Google Blogger platform for their blogs.' name='description'/>
<meta content='Blog, Blogger,Templates, Blogger template, tutorial, widgets, hacks,tutorial, tips, tricks,blogger tips tricks' name='keywords'/>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content='Free Blogger Templates, Widgets, Hacks, Help, Tips and Tricks for bloggers using the Google Blogger platform for their blogs.' name='description'/>
<meta content='Blog, Blogger,Templates, Blogger template, tutorial, widgets, hacks,tutorial, tips, tricks,blogger tips tricks' name='keywords'/>
</b:if>
Replace the highlighted description with your own which should be relevant to your blog and highlighted keywords with important keywords of your blog.These meta tags will only be applicable for your blog home page.If you remove the second line in the above code,then these meta tags will be applicable for both home page and blog posts but you should not do this because every blog post have different description and keywords.Using same description and keywords for each blog post will result in penalty by search engines.
Note: Do not use the same keyword more than three times because you can be penalized by search engines.
How to add meta tags to each blogger post
In wordpress meta tags are automatically inserted in each blogger posts by using plugins like 'All in one SEO pack' but in blogger there is no such plugin but you can add meta tags manually.I will explain how you can do this.Suppose you want to add meta tags to the post with the following link.
http://www.bloggertemp.com/2010/02/tip-to-create-static-pages-in-blogger.html
Insert the below code just after the meta tags tags code which i mentioned above.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://www.bloggertemp.com/2010/02/tip-to-create-static-pages-in-blogger.html"'>
<meta content='Tip to create static pages in blogger easily' name='description'/>
<meta content='static pages,blogger,tip' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
Replace the highlighted link of the post with your own.Replace description and keywords with the one which is relevant to your post.
If you have any problem in implementing meta tags please mention it in comments.
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