SEO Tips for Bloggers
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the most important thing to learn for best blogging experience.
Without proper blog optimization, we can’t even dream to get impressive traffic from search engines.
From past few days, I am getting too much request of newbie bloggers to share some On-Page SEO Tips.
That’s why today I plan to mention all those On Page SEO tips which I already shared on my blog in my earlier posts.
I’m sorry if you have read those posts before, but I need to grab the attention of newbie bloggers who just start learning SEO for their blog. All those tips are must to know by every blogger.
So, let’s take a look at best On-page SEO Tips for Blogspot Blogsand if you have read them before then don’t ignore this post. May be you learn something new which you missed before because of any reason.
All in one Blogspot SEO Pack:
By default in blogger templates or other third party templates you have to optimize your template for search engines like optimizing your blog title, Google Webmaster tool verification tag, Bing Webmaster tool verification integration etc.
- Go to your sidebar menu then click template then click edit HTML.
- With CTRL+F Find <Head> .
- Paste below mention code below <Head> Like Below snaps.
- Save it.
Copy This Code:
<!– All In One SEO Pack for Blogger Blogspot By: seoballia.com Start –>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == "index"’>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> – <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.metaDescription != ""’>
<meta expr:content=’data:blog.metaDescription’ name=’description’/>
</b:if>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == "archive"’>
<meta content=’noindex, nofollow’ name=’robots’/>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == "index"’>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl’>
<meta expr:content=’data:blog.title’ name=’keywords’/>
<meta content=’index, follow’ name=’robots’/>
</b:if>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageTitle != data:blog.title’>
<meta expr:content=’data:blog.pageName’ name=’keywords’/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
<meta content=’GOOGLE VERIFICATION CODE’ name=’google-site-verification‘/>
<meta content=’BING VERIFICATION CODE’ name=’msvalidate.01’/>
<meta content=’YANDEX VERIFICATION CODE’ name=’yandex-verification’/>
<meta content=’global’ name=’distribution’/>
<meta content=’1 days’ name=’revisit’/>
<meta content=’1 days’ name=’revisit-after’/>
<meta content=’document‘ name=’resource-type’/>
<meta content=’all’ name=’audience’/>
<meta content=’general’ name=’rating’/>
<meta content=’all’ name=’robots’/>
<meta content=’en-us’ name=’language’/>
<meta content=’USA’ name=’country’/>
<meta content=’FACEBOON INSIGHT ID HERE’ property=’fb:admins’/>
<meta content=’@twitter.com/TWITTER ID’ name=’twitter:site’/>
<meta content=’@TWITTER ID’ name=’twitter:creator’/>
<link href=’https://plus.google.com/GOOGLE+ ID/about’ rel=’author’/>
<link href=’https://plus.google.com/GOOGLE+ ID/posts’ rel=’publisher’/>
</b:if>
<!– All In One SEO Pack Blogger Blogspot By: sharjeeltahir.com End –>
Customization:
- Change GOOGLE VERIFICATION CODE )With your google verification code you ‘ll get from in you google webmaster tools.
- Change (BING VERIFICATION CODE) With your Bing verification code you ‘ll get from in you Bing webmaster tools.
- Change (YANDEX VERIFICATION CODE) With your YANDEX verification code you ‘ll get from your Account.
- USA with your country like pk,uk etc.
- FACEBOOK INSIGHT ID HERE With you FB admins ID.
- TWITTER ID With your twitter username.
- GOOGLE+ ID With your google ID you ‘ll find Google ID more than once.
- That’s all Save it.>
Blog Headings:
We use headings for Determine the value of a text in a paragraph. In SEO we use H1 in blog titles and h2 in the post title.
- Go again in the template in the menu and click edit HTML.
- With CTRL+F Search H3.
- Change all H3 From CSS to HTML all 8 or 9 to H2.
Optimize Comments:
Comments are good for every blog. With the help of comments, you ‘ll know how visitors feels in your blog and what problems they notice. Some Peoples add links in comments as a reference. This makes damage your search rankings.we have to make these (Nofollow) or External Nofollow.
- Again go to your menu and Click Template.
- Click Edit Html.
- Now find below piece of code by using CTRL+F
expr:href=’data:post.createLinkUrl’
Just replace the above code with given code below:
rel=’external nofollow’ expr:href=’data:post.createLinkUrl’
Save It.
Optimizing Blog Labels
For better navigation, we use tags in blogger because blogger URL accessed with tags and mostly create problems for search bots. So we need to tell them how?
- Go to Blog Template > HTML >> Proceed
- Search for This piece of Code:
<a expr:href=’data:label.url’
Replace it with this:
<a expr:href=’data:label.url’ rel=’tag’
Save Template and that’s all for Labels.
Note: If rel=’tag’ already exists then don’t change anything, leave it as it is.
Blog Description:
- Now on menu click settings and click Basic.
- Now edit your description (Max 500 Words) for your blog (Most important) For every blog.
- This ‘ll also increase your traffic from search engines.
- Also, see that is your blog visible in search engines.
- Save it.
There is another step where you need to add the description.
- Click settings then click search preferences.
- Now on top add the description(150 max words) for search engine search results.
- This is the help google bot for know that what is your site about.
- Save it.
Blog Archives:
Mostly in default templates blog archives shown on the homepage, this ll create problems for google bot. To fix this simply
- Go to Blog’s Template >> HTML >> Proceed
- Search for this piece of Code
<a class=’post-count-link’ expr:href=’data:i.url’>
Replace above code with one below:
<a rel=”archives” class=’post-count-link’ expr:href=’data:i.url’>
Save template and that’s all done about Archives.
Add Robot.txt:
In blogger there is an option called, robot.txt is very important for blogspot seo. Robot.txt Tell search engines that what need to index and what not.
For this
For this
- Again settings and click Search preferences.
- Then click robot.txt and enable it.
- Add below code and-and don’t forget to change URL with yours 😀
- Save it.
User-agent: Media partners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent:
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://seoballia.com/sitemap_index.xml
- Click settings and click
- And set like below image.
- save it
There is an option in settings/search preferences called custom robots header tags. Enable it and set it like the image below.
Final Words:
That’s all necessary steps for blogspot SEO. I hope these SEO tips will help you to get more traffic from Search Engines. If you find any problem please explain in below comment section I ‘ll do my best to resolve your issue thanks.
