If you are the new to blog like me, you are frustrated that not many people visit your blog even after you submit your sitemap to Google.
Here are few tips you can increase SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for your blog.
Google looks at your title of the post.
1. Download the existing XML template and make a copy in your PC.
2. Open the copy of XML and search the below code.
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
3. Replace the above entire code to the below and upload the XML into your Blogger.
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'><title><data:blog.title/> : Your Blog Title Goes Here</title>
<meta content='Add Your Description' name='Description'/>
<meta content='Add Your Keywords' name='Keywords'/><b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'><title><data:blog.title/> : Your Blog Title Goes Here</title>
<meta content='Add Your Description' name='Description'/>
<meta content='Add Your Keywords' name='Keywords'/><b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><title><data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/></title>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageTitle' name='Keywords'/></b:if></b:if></b:if>
So what have been changed?
1. The old code only shows your blog title. Vs. The new code shows the additional description.
[OLD]
[NEW]
2. Even if Google does not look at meta tags such as description and keywords, some other search engines may look at those.
The old code does not have meta tags. Vs. The new code does.
[OLD]
[NEW]
3. The old code shows the blog title and the post title. Vs. The new code shows the post title first.
[OLD]
[NEW]
Thanks. :)
You're welcome. :)
Do the name/title/ description fields have to be filled in manually in the code u have suggested or is it an automatic syntax which will auto-grab the details???
I only can find the Globally Available Data which starting from <data:blog.xyz> as below: title, pageType, url, homepageUrl, pageTitle, encoding, languageDirection, feedLinks. So looks like there are no tags for those.. You can find out more @ http://help.blogger.com/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47270
Wow really useful thank you dude..
Thanks Mark!
thanks~~the code is really useful~~
http://benny-3siblings.blogspot.com/
i am a beginner,please give me some suggestions when you are leisured~~
thank you very much
This is a great tip for bloggers who use blogspot. I'm quite impressed by your detail explanation. Thanks for the tip! Title tags are very important for seo and I think you just hit the important part!
Hi,
<***meta content='Add Your Keywords' name='Keywords'***/>
what kind of keywords must i add?its is okey if i wrote more than one?
Hello,
Thanks for the tip.
hey m8 you have any idea why on mine it shows only the title 2x ?
check it out here http://claudelgfx.blogspot.com
lemme know if you can figure it out
there is error in a code brother
its written twice or so,
check and fix it.
Ummm, the labels page won't show up the page title this way (e.g. php -- my blog)... and perhaps blogger search pages wont show the title as well (e.g. Search results for php -- my blog). I use the following code in my blog template:
{b:if cond='data:blog.pageName == ""'}
{title}{data:blog.title/}{/title}
{b:else/}
{title}{data:blog.pageName/} -- {data:blog.title/}{/title}
{/b:if}
(Please replace all curly brackets with corresponding angle brackets)
This code shows correct title for posts and other pages such as blogger search results, archive and label pages.
Thanks for this great post...
How long will it take for this change to become effective and visible to me?
Sector Analyst, the changes, if done properly should be visible immediately. And oops... I looked at your blog and found out that there are two "title" tags, indicating that you've not inserted the template code properly. Please check.
i think i have already done the swapping, the blog title and post name.. and i also have meta tags added already.. is there any more advantage in doing this frnd..
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Thank you very much for this post...