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Optimize Your Blogger Post Titles
Try to put your keywords at the beginning of your title for best results and avoid repeating your keywords within the title. Avoid long titles as Google only displays about 65 characters in the search results anyway.
By default your Blogger blog (Blogspot blog) does not have search engine optimised title tags. This puts your blog at a disadvantage compared to other blogs that have inbuilt SEO or enhanced SEO modules as these sites are likely to be placed more highly in search engine results.
How to Create Search Engine Friendly Permalinks for Blogger Posts
Blogger is that it takes only the first 35-40 characters of your title to create the permalink so if you have a longer title you can run into problems. My suggestion is that you design your titles carefully if you want to avoid losing the end characters from your permalink You will need to publish and then republish as I did with this post. The method involves creating a shorter title that will adequately summarise the content of your post (eg Improved Permalinks for Blogger Posts) and then publishing your post.
Improve SEO by Making Use of Headings for Post Titles
Changing Blogger <h2>,<h3> to <h1> tag.
Adjust Blogger Title Tags to Improve SEO
As search engines place greater value on the first words of an entry this puts your site at a disadvantage in search engine results. Fortunately it is easy to reverse the blog name and the post name with a simple tweak.
How to Add a Subtitle to Blogger Posts
Benefits of Using Subtitles in Posts
Adding a subtitle which appears below the title of your post can be both eye catching and informative. For instance a titling schema for this post could be:
If the subtitle you choose for your Blogger post is keyword rich then you are also improving your chances of gaining a higher position in search engine result pages because search engines give added weight to headings and to text early on in an article. By adding a subtitle to a Blogger post you have a SEO tool which if used effectively could result in more visitors finding your site because of higher keyword density.
Add Meta Tags to Blogger for Better SEO
Adding meta keywords and a blog description to your Blogger Blogspot blog can boost your rankings by helping visitors locate your blog using keyword and keyword phrases.
Optimize Your Use of Images
Adding Alt text to images.
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Adding and Manage Your Feeds Carefully
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Add a Recent Comments Feed to Blogger Sidebar
Take Advantage of Web Analytics Services: Google Analytics
After you have submitted your website's data to all the search engines and directories, you should be able to find your site somewhere on the internet. If you do a keyword search on your website's topic, you may find many other listings in the search results ahead of yours. These are the sites which have better page ranks and are optimized for the search engines. You can optimize your blog or website too.
To attract business, many SEO sites have put up some of their SEO tools for free. Commercial sites which are serious in wanting to climb up the search ranking will pay the SEO consultants for more value-added services. If you are like us, blogging out of fun and passion, it might be better to use only the free services for a start.
Enter words like - free SEO tools - into the search box and you can see what some of these sites offer.
Many of the SEO webmaster sites have similar free tools and services. You can try any of them, though the one that we like is iWebTool. In fact, they have a link exchange program which you may want to check out. Among the SEO Tools, the ones we find useful in all these sites are:-
a. Backlink Checker – A list of sites that have linked to your blog or website. PageRank is largely determined by the number and quality of links to your site. Monitor this and you can probably guess what your PageRank ought to be.
b. Broken Link Checker – A look at which of the links in your site are pointing to incorrect or non-existent URLs. Having too many outdated and broken links on your web page may irritate not only the readers but the search spiders. Do this housekeeping once in a while to remove the bad links.
c. Google PageRank Checker – The Google PageRank of your site. You can also download Mozilla Firefox with Google Toolbar to view the Google PageRanks of all the sites that you visit.
d. Google PageRank Prediction – A future Google PageRank prediction. If you are dying to know, these sites can give you a fair estimate of your future PageRank.
e. HTML Optimizer – A clean up of your HTML source code. Be careful when you apply the suggested changes though. Always good to backup the template before making any modification.
f. Index Checker – Number of pages of your website that are indexed by search engines. If pages are missing from the index, try submitting your sitemap again.
g. Keyword Density Checker – The keyword distribution in your webpage. This will by and large influence the sort of Ads that AdSense will place on your site.
h. Keyword Suggestor – Suggested popular keywords for your website. Bear in mind these keywords when writing or editing your posts.
i. Meta-tags Generator – Configuration of website's meta-tags. Tailor a suitable description and set of keywords to be inserted into the template.
j. Reciprocal Link Checker – A check to see if the partners in your blogrolls or link exchange are linking to you.
k. Spider Simulator – The page contents as seen by a search engine spider. Some may give you a breakdown of the commonly used keywords in your site.
l. Traffic Graphs – A comparison of your site's and other competitor sites' traffic history graphs in Alexa.
m. Website Speed Test – Speed of website page load. If you find the pageload time a little long, take some measures to have a Faster Web Page Load Time.
Basic Tools
Should you want to have a quick look at what some of the SEO tools are about, we have created a few basic search tools over here at our Tips for New Bloggers site.
1. Yahoo! Indexed Pages
The results will show you the number and details of the web Pages that are indexed by Yahoo!
2. Yahoo! Backlinks
Enter your site's URL to see the Inlinks or backlinks of your site.
The data in the various search engines are not the same. You can have a look at how your blog is performing in Google search by entering your site URL below.
1. Google Indexed Pages
Enter URL after the word site: to view the indexed pages in Google.
2. Google Backlinks
Enter URL after the word link: for details of the backlinks to your site.
1. MSN Indexed Pages
Enter URL after the word site: to view the indexed pages in MSN.
2. MSN Backlinks
Enter URL after the word link: to view the backlinks.
This search tool is provided by Prchecker. Enter a URL into the form to view the Google PageRank.
4. Alexa Rankings
Alexa monitors the web traffic of many top sites. You can compare and view the Alexa traffic graph of your site by entering your site URL into the search box below.
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