9 Killer Blogspot SEO tips For bloggers

Google Blogger is free and easy to use web publishing tool . Many bloggers initially uses Blogger and then Migrate to WordPress complaining about lack of official templates ,post SEO friendliness , plugins etc . We have already discussed this on our previous post Why you should select wordpress as your blogging platform. But actually with little effort we can make Blogger posts really SEO friendly and an effective free medium for online business . So here I have collected some search engine optimization (SEO) tips for blogspot blogs arranged on no order .

Format Blogger post URL link

Blogger maintains a policy to keep the number of characters in post title to 50 . So if you are making a post like say , “Google released new version of Google chrome download it right now ” , here the post title is more than 50 character limit and the keyword download Google chrome will go out of the URL link . In blogger we will not be able to change the URL structure after publishing post . The only solution is to include to format the title in such a way to include all necessary keywords . So the publish the post little in above example as download Google Chrome new version and later change it to the desired one .

Maintain the keyword density

Publish articles in relevance to post title and include necessary keywords in the post . Never stuff keywords to manipulate search engines . But after finish you can analyze the whole post to find out suitable locations where the keywords can be safely inserted without distracting readers .

Blogspot proper labels and related posts

Label adds to the keyword density of the post . Labels should be widened rather than putting them into single narrow category .I will explain this point by an example . Consider a situation when you are posting about Google chrome and putting them into label Windows software’s or browser . Here you will miss keywords like Chrome browser ,Google chrome etc. which would otherwise add to the keyword density of the whole post . Labels also affects related posts widgets in Blogger.And if there are so many posts tagged with similar labels ,it would affect the arrangement of articles in related posts .

Format Blogger post title

Blogger post title are usually followed by home page title . Have a look at the image shown below .

Here the post title should be “city of (long-distance ) Love! ” . But title is included with home page title ” Still in Berlin ” ,and this would harm the SEO friendliness of the article title . Here is how to fix this . Go to Blogger edit HTML > find out code section

title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>

and replace it with

<b:if cond= 'data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

Now the individual pages will have post title itself .

Format Blogspot images for SEO

In Blogger there are no plugins for inserting alt tags and title tags automatically . You should insert them manually after uploading each image . Check out this post to know more about formatting blogger images for SEO .

Provide meta tags

Meta tags are generate HTML tags used by search engines to identify the title , description and other details of a URL . They don’t have much influence on search as they were before , but would make a slight impact on targeted keywords .

Provide good title ,description and footer text

Title ,footer and description plays an important role on search engine optimization of every blog . If you are targeting some keywords make sure that you included those keywords in the above mentioned locations .

Nofollow external links

Nofollow is an HTML attribute specified on hyperlinks to block search engine advantage of external links in a website . In Blogger you can select HTML section of the post window and add rel=”nofollow” attribute just after URL to prevent search engines from crawling a particular link . Also read : How to add nofollow link attribute to any link.

Format comment section

Comment section should be no-followed and moderated to avoid spam comments . Try to include the post keywords when you are replaying to reader comments . This would also add up to the total keyword density of the post .

Blogspot is Google’s baby blogging platform and if you do it right probably you will be doing great in terms of traffic. Always get your basic right.

If you like this article, don’t forget to tweet and stumble. Further you might like to read Following articles for Blogspot blogs:

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Editor’s Note : This is a guest post from Smartin jose, who writes about web design, SEO and more. If you like the post, you can follow him on Twitter @SmartinJose

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