MTPH Software: Blog : How To Improve SEO For Blogger Template :

February 7, 2010 m23perrault No Comments

Blogger (or Blogspot) is a free blogging platform run by Google with many nice widget and templates. This article will guide you some tips to improve SEO for blogger template with a few seconds.

The first, i will create new blog in Blogger.com. My blog need to improve SEO is http://tutorials-tips-tricks-info.blogspot.com. After blog created, i have installed new themes and check website score in http://websitegrader.com/

And the result before optimized SEO, my blog point is 27.

Ok, now i will following 3 steps below and try check again.

1. Blog Title.

Normally, the title of a blog is BLOG TITLE : POST TITLE, you can improve SEO by modifying the title to POST TITLE | BLOG TITLE. Find the following code in your template:

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

replaced by the code:

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

You can also add more keyword in blog title, example:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> |  <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/> | Tutorials | Tips | Tricks | ...</title>
</b:if>

2. Meta Keywords And Blog Description.

Add the code before <b:skin><![CDATA[/*

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta name="description" content="Best Tutorials, tips, tricks for you when using internet" />
<meta name="keywords" content="tutorials, tips, tricks,...etc />
</b:if>

3. Heading.

Heading Tag (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5) is also very important for SEO. All widget titles of blogspot using H2 tags. but some template using H2 tags for article title. To improve SEO, you need to use H1 tags for the title article. For example the code below:

<b:if  cond='data:post.title'>
<h3 class='post-title  entry-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</h3>
</b:if>

In this article, my blog template using H3 tags for the article title (if you can’t find, maybe your template you use H2 tags). Replacement H3 tag (or H2) by H1:

<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h1 class='post-title  entry-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</h1>
</b:if>

And after 30 seconds, when check again in http://websitegrader.com/, my blog point increased to 33.