7 things to take care of while writing a post in blogger for seo

Seo is the target everyone has to achieve for a popular blog because without seo a blog can't get only a unique visitor and the dream of a blogger to have some organic traffic always remains a dream. Making a blog seo friendly isn't an easy work, its a very difficult thing and a time consuming work and can't be done by everyone only few people gets this opportunity no matter whatever source of seo is used. Although if you get seo tips from top and popular websites even then it would take some time to make your blog fully seo optimized. 

Now a days almost every website provides seo tools also such as site health check(copy content), keyword suggestions tool, back-links generator, meta tags generators, robots.txt generators etc but instead of using these tools time is consumed to get a seo friendly blog. So instead of doing hard work you should work smarter. I have seen many bloggers doing hard work to make their blogs seo optimized such as searching for high value keywords on internet for hours, generating meta tags, implementing popular templates, generating millions of back-links, sharing post links in social exchanging sites etc I know some bloggers also who pay for seo to get their blog appear in search results. Some bloggers use Google adwords and bing ads also but they should try to make each post seo friendly and for that they have to take care of following things which I am going to mention below. If you want a fully optimized seo post do following things while writing posts:

(1). Alt in images:

Very few internet user know that search engine robots and crawlers can't read images therefore we need to name them as crawlers and robots are able to read only text. So make sure to have alt in each image in your post to make images seo friendly. In some blog it is also termed as tags in images. Taging images is very important for seo, previously I have shared a post about taging images for seo you can read it here.

(2). Optimizing links:

Links also play an important role in seo therefore optimizing them is also essential. Links can be optimized in two ways number 1 is optimizing the link of post, you can do this by making permalinks of posts I have written a post for optimizing post links you can find it here another way of optimizing links is adding rel=nofollow to links this is for the links which you add in posts. I have written a post for adding rel=nofollow where I have briefly explained how to optimize links for seo in post you can find it here

(3). Search description:

This is the third most important thing to take care of for seo while writing a post. Every blog has a description which describes it and tells what the blog is about similarly a description for each post is also required for seo which describes it e.g what the post is about or what is in the post. Normally this option isn't available in newly created blogs. So you have to enable this option first. After understanding the importance of search description for each post I wrote a post about enabling this option in which I have also discussed how to write a seo friedly description in that post.

(4). Internal linking:

Internal linking means to link post with previous posts as you might have noticed that in this post in every paragraph I have linked old posts. Many people do this by simply adding a related posts gadget in their blogs which automatically mentions similar posts below every post. Internal linking is also important for seo, I haven't written a post about internal linking yet so you have to do this by you own.

(5). Adding labels:

Labels are the categories, while writing a post on the write hand side it is the first option. Add the labels which defines your post properly. For example if you are writing a post about seo tips label iy as seo, seo tips, seo tips for blogger etc.

(6). Tags in posts:

This thing is important than all of the above. Taging images is to define images similarly to define posts tags are also needed. Everybody know how to write tags. Tags should be relative to the post's title so that it could define it more properly. For example a post about seo should have tags seo, seo tips, seo tricks, seo new tips, how to increase traffic seo, seo for blogger seo for website, latest seo tips, 100% working seo tips etc. After writing tags we should style them so that search engines could find them easily and mention posts in searchresults.

(7). Optimizing post titles and headings:

May be you have noticed that in my posts I use large heading as they are important for seo so write headings in large font-size. After headings its time to optimize post titles you should use h1 size for post titles. You can read a detailed post about optimizing posts titles by using h1 size here.

I have previously written a post about seo tips where you can find more then 30 tips about seo which works 100%. you can read this post here. I hope you like this post and it is helpful to you. Follow and subscribe to get latest news about seo. If you like this post share it with others because sharing is caring :)

Blog title optimization for seo in blogger Latest Post Tricks

Seo(search engine optimization) is a basic and important thing for a blog or website's traffic. Seo is of two types one is on-page seo and another is off-page seo, off-page seo includes many thing among which one is blog title optimization. While creating a blog there are many thing to take care of such as category, description, meta tags etc but a very important thing is having a good title. Good title means a title which describes your blog category properly.

Let say if you have a blog about fashion then what would be the best title for it? I think it would be Fashion, style, latest fashion clothes or something like New fashion for boys and girls, fashion 2014 etc. But it is not just about having a good title another thing comes whena post is created, so when a post is opened it will display only post title and not represent you blog title which is not good for seo. So for displaying blog title beside post title you will use a separator between post title and blog title. It is a good way to optimize post titles that's why I have created a post about adding a separator between post and blog title before. But adding a separator between blog and post title is not useful for all blog specially if a blog has a long title such as mine, my blog title is 101Helper | Blogger tips,tricks,widgets,tutorials,seo but when a post is opened and browser tab is hovered it represents only 101Helper so how did I do it and why?






The answer is because some search engines specially Google and Bing doesn't show full title, so a blog having long title is not optimized by just adding a separator. For example if i am searching for All in one social sharing buttons for blogger or another post on Google then it will show
results as shown in below image:

In above image the results shown by Google is just name of the post and after separator there is only 101Helper... similar to Google bing also shows only 101Helper after post title so if you have a blog having long title then you have to optimize it for better seo. In above example I have used a post having small title, what would happen if I search for a long title? such as Tips to increase blog traffic and generate more than 600 page-views/day Google will show only Tips to increase blog traffic and generate more than 600... therefore I have to optimize my blog title in such a way that after post title it show only 101Helper so if you have a blog having long title or you want post title alone or want your post titles to be followed by blog title then you are at right place. In this post I will tell you how to optimizeyour blog title in different ways according to your needs.


How to optimize blog title for seo in blogger?
When its about optimizing title of either post or blog, we need to edit template. But before that download a backup of your blog so that if something goes wrong you could backup it. To optimize your blog title follow below mentioned steps:

Step 1: Go to blogger dashboard and click on template.


Step 2: On the template page click on Edit Html.

Step 3: Click anywhere in the Html and search for <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> by using Ctrl+F on your keyboard.

Step 4: Replace it with the anyone of below codes which you prefer for your blog:


Post title followed by blog title:

If you want your post titles to be followed by blog title or your blog title includes relevant keywords of your content and you want to show your post titles along with blog title then replace the above code with code shown below:

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


In the above code green colored | is a separator between blog and post title, you can use another symbol instead of it. I have previously created a detailed post about how to add a separator between your blog and post title for seo you can read it here if you don't understand it.


Post title followed by Short blog title: 

As in the introduction of this post I said that some search engines specially Google and Bing doesn't show full title of a blog or site, so if you have a long blog title then you have to reduce it if you want to show your blog title with your post title in search results. If you don't reduce then in search results your post title will be something like 101Helper | Blogger tips,tricks,widgets,tutorials,seo.... so your post title will be displayed but your blog title will be kept hidden in dots as shown in above image. To reduce your blog title and to show name of your blog only after separator replace the above code with below code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | Your blog title<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

In the above code replace Your blog title with your blog name and beside it separator is also added in this code you can use other symbols instead of it. When you replace Your blog titlewith your blog name then when browser tab is hovered it will show post title, a separator and blog name which you type in place of Your blog title, so your long blog title is reduced and now its seo friendly.

Post titles only:
If you want to strengthen your post titles keyword density and want only post titles alone without a blog title then use below code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><title><data:blog.pageName/></title><b:else/><title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title></b:if>

After using this code when you will open a post and hover browser tab it will show only post title.

Blog title before post titles:




It is similar to the second one but it has a little difference, by using the second code your post titles will be followed by blog title but this code will show your blog title first and the post title after that. So if your blog title is searched on the web all posts will be shown in results as all of the post titles will have your blog title. Why does the second code doesn'tshow all posts in search results? its because some posts have long titles so search enginesshow your post title but hide blog titles in dots. Use this code only if you are sure that people use to search your blog name to reach your blog otherwise it may result in low traffic.


<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title>Your blog title | <data:blog.pageName/><b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>



You can see that in second code Your blog title was in last so it showed your blog title in last but now it is first so it will show your blog title first. Just replace Your blog title with your blog name and you are done!

Step 5: After replacing anyone of the above code click on save template and you are done!
Final words:

Title optimization is a good step to make your blog seo friendly, but with title there are so many other things which also need to be optimized such as links, meta tags, robot tags, 404 page not found redirection etc. Therefore I have created a post which is all in one seo packfor blogger you can fully optimize your blog by reading that post.

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