Blogspot Site SEO

Blogger is a free platform for bloggers and it’s one of the most popular and a powerful blog platform. A blogger blog can be tweek and hacked for almost every need of a user and it’s owned by Google, so you get some search juice.

By default, every blogger blog is SEO optimized but it could be lost if you use a highly complicated theme and add lots of hacks into the template. Here are some quick tips to make your blogger(blogspot) blog SEO friendly,

1. Google webmaster tools

Sign up for Google webmaster tools and add your site. You can then optimize your site like checking backlinks, crawl status and rate. By using Google webmaster tool, you can give access to your blog directly.

2. Use a sitemap

Google can index all of your blog pages automatically but if you provide a Sitemap(the list with all pages of your site) then google can search easily. Blogger sitemap is, your-blog.blogspot.com/atom.xml. You can also create a custom post with all of your page links to create a custom sitemap.

3. Use a simple template

Most of the bloggers like to have a cool looking template like those cool wordpress templates. WordPress templates are made of lots of PHP files and blogger have only one HTML file. When a designer creates a blogger template from a wordpress template, it becomes very complicative for search bots to index pages. Try to use simple templates with less coding.

4. Avoid too many flash, java and ajex codes

Some bloggers (like me) likes to hack every part of their blogger blog with widgets, codes and everything. The more things you are adding, the template is becoming more complicated, making your blog SEO un-friendly.

5. Meta Tags

Use meta tags in your blogger blog to get better search rankings.

6. Anchor text, interlink and backlinks

Interlink your posts with each other and use anchor texts. Get some backlinks from related blogs. The more quality backlinks you have, the more search rank you’ll get.

7. Parmalinks with keywords

A typical blogger parmalink is, your-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/Some-quick-tips-to-make.html -now the words on the parmalink will benefit your search status. But look at the title, “Some quick tips to make your blogger(blogspot) blog SEO friendly” -the main keywords from the title are, blogger, blogspot, blog and seo. You can’t change the parmalink parameter of blogger and it adds only first 4-5 words as the parmalink. So you have to change the title like this, “SEO friendly blogger(blogspot) blog -how to do it?” then the parmalink will be: your-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/seo-friendly-bloggerblogspot-blog.html

8. Labels and pings

Use related labels with your blogger posts. Use lots of related labels which will help you in technorati traffic because the labels on blogger works like technorati tags. Whenever you post a new article, use Ping-o-matic to ping search engines, which will inform search bots to crawl your blog.

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Exporting And Importing Blogger Template

To export a Blogger template:

1. Navigate File-> Export-> Export Template
2. In the Export dialog enter the folder name and the path to the exported template, check the appropriate boxes to export the template as ZIP archive and/or include the ARTX project.
3. Select the location for the exported images. You can leave the default option "Upload to ImageShack" or change it to "Save to Template Folder"
4. Configure the Menu Source and other options by clicking "Options"

To install a Blogger template:

1. Open the exported main.xml file and modify the image paths to reflect the location you’ve chosen to place the image files.
2. Log in to your Blogger Dashboard.
3. In the Dashboard click the "Layout" link or the "Design" tab (if you are using the Old Blogger interface).
4. Navigate Layout-> Edit HTML and paste the code from main.xml (in the Old Blogger interface click the "Edit HTML" link under the "Design" tab and paste the code/upload the main.xml file)
   
   
   Note: in the updated Blogger interface an error may occur after pasting HTML. If this has happened, please switch to the Old Blogger interface and paste the HTML again (Design -> Edit HTML) or upload the main.xml file.
   
   
5. Confirm and Save.

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