Optimizing blogger blogs for better search engine rankings and increase in traffic

Optimizing blogger blogs



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Search engine optimization is important for any blog. although blogspot blogs tend to rank well in search engines there are few SEO tweaks that you can do to make it rank even higher and attract more visitors. SEO for blogspot is a not a popular topic, mostly because people who are interested in SEO are Internet marketers and businessman who have there own domains instead of free blogspot blogs. But blogspot blogs rank highly for some competitive keywords so there is no doubt that with the proper effort you can rank blogspot blogs as well. In this article I will discuss about how to do SEO for blogspot blogs, but keep in mind that you need to modify some code to do this. It is very easy to do so you don't have to be scared and I will show you how to restore the original settings, if things went horribly wrong. I will break down the different blogspot SEO tips to basic, intermediate and advanced, so you can do simple things first and familiarize yourself with the process.

Basic SEO tips for blogspot blogs

google blogger blogs 

No code modification, just filling some fields

The first thing you need to do is add a proper title to your blogspot blog. Title is one of the most important things when it comes to search engine rankings so you need to make sure to add your necessary keywords to the title. The number of characters show in a search engine result varies but it is never more than 70 characters.Usually it is about 60-65 words,so make sure to add your main keywords in the first 60 characters in your google blogger blog.
Another important thing google blogger blog to add the description, this explains what your blog is about, although it isn't really act as a meta description tag it shows up in search engine results. Make sure to explain what your blog is about while adding keywords as well. Both these fields can be found in Settings -> Basic in your blog. Don't wait, go do it now,this article isn't going anywhere.
Possible drawbacks of this method is that since blogger blogs shows the title at the top with somewhat huge fonts, the header section can get real big and ugly. This is not a huge problem if you are getting most of your traffic from search engines, but if you are trying to build readers and a community around your blog then this could be a drawback, In the later sections I will show you how to get through this problem.

Basic SEO setting for blogspot blogs 


basic seo settings for blogspot blogs
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Comments

  1. Thanks for sharing these tips. They can definitely help me a lot as I have just started another blogger blog that I will use for my marketing campaign.

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