10 Most Essential SEO Tips For A Blogger Blog

Make your blogger blog SEO friendly, if you want to increase your blog traffic. There are many ways to optimize your blog for Search Engine but in this post we'll discuss the most essential and basic tips below. I'm writing this post for new and beginners bloggers who don't know what we are going to do. if you are an old blogger and know well about Search Engine Optimization then you will have probably used these steps in your blogger blog. So follow these simple steps if you are new to blogger and not already have done these changes to your blogger template.




Login to your Blogger dashboard and select your blog then choose Template from options.
Make sure you Backup your template first before making changes in it.
1. Optimize Post Title
To optimize post title first of all backup up your template and then use ctrl F to find this line
(Code)
Now replace the code with this one

<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>
2. Change Headings

Find H3 (Post Title) and replace it with H2

3. Optimize CommentsUse ctrl F to find the code below
expr:href='data:post.createLinkUrl'Replace it with the code below, but if you find rel="nofollow" before or after the code above cancel it and use rel='external follow' as shown below
rel='external nofollow' expr:href='data:post.createLinkUrl'Now find the next line
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl'
Replace it with the code below.

<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='external nofollow'

That's all about optimizing comment links

4. Optimize Labels

Use ctrl F to fine the code below

<a expr:href='data:label.url' Replace it with the code below, but if possible you find exactly the code below in your template, just leave it as it is.
<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'

5. Optimize Archives

Before you can optimize your archive link, you must add archive widget to your blog, but if you do not, don't bother to use this step. use ctrl F to find this code
<a class='post-count-link' expr:href='data:i.url'> Replace it with the code below
<a rel="archives" class='post-count-link' expr:href='data:i.url'>

That's all about optimizing archive links.

6. Change Static Meta Description

Go to Template Edit HTML and insert this code right on top of b:skin><![CDATA[

<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != &quot;&quot;'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription'name='description'/>
</b:if>




7. Enable Meta Description

Add 150 letters description

8. Adding Custom Robots.Txt Fil
To add custom robots.txt file go to Settings, Search Preferences›› Crawlers and indexing›› Custom robots.txt›› Edit›› Yes
Now paste your robots.txt file code in the box.
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://yourblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED
Click on Save Changes button. You are done!

9. Adding Google Verification Code To Blogger
You can do this by visiting your webmaster tools account.

10. Sitemap Submission

Submit your blogger sitemap after publishing 20 posts.
That's all.