The Complete Blogger SEO

These days creating a blog is pretty easy. There are main websites providing blogging services. Just register, give your blog a name and publish few posts, that's it your blog is online. Your blog is your voice and you want your voice to be heard by large number of people. To reach more number of audience one must implement SEO.
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What is SEO?

SEO(Search Engine Optimization) is nothing but optimizing your website or blog's content in such a way that it should be search engine friendly in the sense it should appear in search results. Every one can't remember your blog's url until it becomes familiar with the netizens. So visitors should reach your blog through search engines only. Now we will learn SEO implementation on a blogger blog.

Steps to Implement SEO on a Blogger Blog

1. Post Title

Give your post a title which suits to your content. We recommend you to do some google search so that you will get an idea how related posts are there on the web.

2. Permalink

When you publish a post blogger automatically generates an url from the post title. But if your post title is lengthy url will be broken. For this blogger introduced permalink where bloggers can provide custom url to their post. Read this post to know how to create permalinks. Permalinks for blogger blog

3. Post Content

In order to get more traffic to your blog we recommend you to use Google adwords Keyword Tool. It gives how search patterns are going on for a particular keyword or phrase and how much traffic. Use those keywords in your post. 

**Note: Too much usage of Keywords will be considered as spam. So use keywords optimally.

4. Headings 

Use headings and sub-headings properly in your post because search engines consider headings as header tags. You can find heading options in Text format options available in blogger post editor. 

5. Search Description 

When we search for something we will see under each search result some description available that is called search description. By seeing search description user gets an idea of what that particular post is about. In blogger post editor you will find search description field on right of the screen. Provide 2-3 lines of catchy description about your post.

6. Image Search Engine Optimization

Optimizing your blog's images is also a search engine optimization. The optimized blog's images will appear in google images search. When you upload any image to your blog just click on the image, click on properties and provide Title, Alt attributes. Read this post to know more about image seo. Image Search Engine Optimization

7. Labels

As a blogger you publish posts on different topics. It is important to categorize your posts based on the topic. For example If you observe this blog you will find How To, Blogging Tips, SEO on top of this post, these are the few labels which I used to categorize my posts. You will find Labels in blogger post editor right side under Post Settings.

8. Custom 404 Page

While browsing we often encounter page not found(404) error. This is frustrating to users. Creating a custom 404 page is also one of the search engine optimization techniques. Read this post to know how to create a custom 404 page in blogger

9. Sitemaps

Okay you published a post and what next? Search engines crawl better if you provide a sitemap in order to index in their websites directory. A sitemap provides an in detail structure of your website or blog.  Visit ctrlq, enter your blog url and generate the sitemap. Copy and paste the sitemap in google and yahoo webmaster tools. Read the complete post here Webmaster Tools 

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