Adjust Blogger Title Tags to Improve SEO

This article is related to SEO that how to improve search engine optimization for blogger blogspot blog. In this article we will discuss how to edit and correct the title tags of blogger blog to improve page rank in search engine results. By default the blogger title tags are not search engine optimized because the order is not correct the blog title is followed by post title which search engines really don't like and you could not get the targeted traffic that's why you have to manually optimize them, and this is a big disadvantage as compared to other plat forms like Wordpress or TypePad. Where they have built in SEO modules which help them to get higher in search results.You should also Add Meta Tags to Blogger for Better SEO.For this read my tutorial on
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The default title tags of blogger are like that “first blog name and then post title or title of the post”, which is not search engine friendly and popular search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing don’t give them much importance. Instead of this the search engine gives more importance to the title tags, where the blog name comes after the post title. Following example will show you the main difference of default and SEO optimized title tags. First the default title tags which looks like Blog Name | Post Name.

As you have seen the default title tags there is just a simple trick with which it becomes search engine optimized and you could get the targeted traffic.

Before Applying Hack

 After Applying Hack

Following steps will help you to improve search engine rankings:

Editing Title tags for better SEO

1. Login to Blogger. From the dashboard go to Design > Edit HTML

2. Now find the code given below by simply pressing Ctrl + F key in the HTML tab

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

3. Now replace it with the following code (Ctrl + C copy, Ctrl + V paste)

<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>

4. And that's all you're done now click on Save Template and then View Blog.

As you have seen that your page title comes before you blog title. Now you will see a significant improvement in traffic accessing your site.

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