Blogger SEO Tips

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Blogging has become passion and way to earn money for living for many people. To host own blog will take money and efforts to maintain because of the hosting payments, managing stress and downtime of the server that concerns most of the blogger when thinking to host own blogs. For this reason many choose http://www.blogger.com to host personals blogs as it allows you host as many blogs as you wish.

You can host many blogs as you required with free of cost, but also required to be optimized for each search engines when looking for search engines rankings.

Blogger has no provision to add meta tags easily to your blog. Hence it has to be done manually and include the necessary tags to your blog. If you have ever tried to include those tags you might have experienced there is no easy way to do that. For this reason I have decided to discuss few tips and how to optimize blog for search engines.

Title

The title of the blog is most important for search engines and it lets the search engines to know what your blog is about. Include the following code to your blogger blog in head and title tag.

head - b:include data="blog" name="all-head-content" title - data:blog.pageTitle

Description

The description of the blog should be included in Meta tag. The description should give the information to search engines in a meaningful way. It should be framed in complete sentence. Include the following code in between opening and closing of b:if

b:if cond='data:blog.url = ="http://yourblogurl.blogspot.com"' meta content='blog description' name='description'

Keywords

Your Meta tag of the blog also specifies keywords of your blog. The keyword in the Meta tag tells the search engines about what your blog is. Include the following code in between opening and closing of b:if

b:if cond='data:blog.url = ="http://yourblogurl.blogspot.com"' meta content='blog keywords' name='keywords'

After performing on page optimization, it is important to generate back links to your blog. Generating back links will drive much traffic to your blog. Do the following steps to generate back links.

Add your blog to blog directories and RSS directories

Frequently update your blog and use pinging service to ping social networking and social bookmarking sites. Comments should be open but delete unrelated or spam comments. Doing above will generate traffic to your web page.

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