SEO For Blogger

I recently began reading a lot more about SEO for blogs and what some of the best practices are. I was a little disturbed to find out how much better WordPress is for SEO than Blogger, since Blogger is my platform.

I was disturbed to find that Blogger lowers your SEO when you export your blog from Blogger to another platform. The SEO for Blogger should be a lot better, especially considering that this is Google’s blogging platform.

I did find some ways to boost your Blogger SEO that are out there. The Blog Know How blog is extremely informative on this issue and gives some great insight on how to boost your Blogger SEO.

Utilize Heading Tags

Make sure that when you post, you are using the h1 and h2 tags for subheads. If there are keywords in the headings, this also helps.

SEO Friendly Tags

By default, the title’s that appear on your browser for your Blogspot blog give Blogger’s information, before any information about your blog. Blog Know How offers some simple code to plug into your template that will reverse the order on your blog’s titles. If you provide keyword-rich titles, they will now be better optimized and have a stronger impact in the search engines.

Home Page, and Individual Post Meta Tags

Blogger does not have a place to input Meta data the way that WordPress does. This makes for an automatic disadvantage. You can however add some code to your template that will provide Meta data to your home page. There is also code to add to your template for individual post meta. You can’t do every post however, or it will become far too sloppy. It’s best to pick a handful of your strongest blogs and strengthen their SEO pull.

There are a few other modifications that can also be found if you do a simple Google search. It’s disappointing that Google’s platform isn’t a little stronger for SEO. Hopefully some of these changes can help.

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