Top 5 SEO Tips to increase Blog Traffic

As you may have noticed this blog mostly focuses on Blogger.com and SEO for newbie.You should also check out my previous Article about Blogger's SEO. But for now lets start what to do when we start a new blog with blogger.com

1. How to Optimize Post Titles 

This is very simple logic and by default Blog title appears first in GOOGLE and other search engine results and then post title appears. so this makes confusion for the searcher. Because what he is searching for is not showing exactly. So, to avoid this confusion and to promote post title first and then blog title do follow below steps:

1. Login to Blogger >>> Template >>> HTML >>> Proceed
2. Search this code :  NOTE (Use CTRL+F to find this  code)

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

3. Replace the above code with below

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'> <title><data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title> </b:if>

2. How to Optimize Blog Lables
The Lable links are the tags which used in Blogger for a better user navigation. They most often create problems for search engines crawlers. So we need to change them to their respective HTML attributes.

Go to Blogger Dashboard >>>Template >>> HTML >>> Proceed
Search for This Code (Use CTRL+F to find this code)

<a expr:href='data:label.url'

Replace it with this:

<a expr:href='data:label.url' rel='tag'  

Save Template and that's ok.

3. How to Optimize Comments

Comments are good for every blog and website. But if they are irrelevant then they destroy the search ranking. So you must keep comments' external links as nofollow or external nofollow. How to do it

Go to Blogger Dashboard >>>Template >>> HTML >>> Proceed


Search for this piece of Code

expr:href='data:post.createLinkUrl'

Replace above with this

 rel='external nofollow'  expr:href='data:post.createLinkUrl'

Save Template and that's ok.

4. How To Optimize Blog Archives
This is another problem with Some Custom Blogger Template. Archives pages (if they are shown in home page) make problems for search robots Such as Duplicate Content. So if you want to get rid of this problem then just follow Me.

Search for this piece of Code

<a class='post-count-link' expr:href='data:i.url'>

Replace above code with one below:

<a rel="archives" class='post-count-link' expr:href='data:i.url'>

Save template and that's ok.