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SEO Titles with Blogger

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by Such Great Heights, Sep 13, 2004.

  1. #1
    I can't seem to figure out how to get my post pages (single page for each post) to display the title of the post rather than the title of my blog then the title of the post.

    Example:
    What I got: [Title of Blog: Title of Post]
    What I want: [Title of Post]

    My main blog page has the Title of Blog as the title.

    I've put the tag: <$BlogPageTitle$> as my title and it does what I don't want it to do.

    Any help or suggestions?
    Is there a different tag I should use?

    I will keep looking ... and post if I find it first.
     
    Such Great Heights, Sep 13, 2004 IP
  2. l0cke

    l0cke Active Member

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  3. SEbasic

    SEbasic Peon

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    #3
    Nice...

    I had real trouble getting it to work before.

    So thanks for that...

    I'll put a link up on my blog to say thanks...

    Any anchor text you'd like me to use?

    Any pages in particular you would like me to link to?
     
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  4. l0cke

    l0cke Active Member

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    Nah.. I'm not looking for anything special so whatever you feel like. Thanks for the link though ;).
     
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  5. TwisterMc

    TwisterMc Mac Guru

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    #5
    Hey I wanna know that too. I use blogger.com and haven't looked. But it can't be that hard can it?
     
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  6. Such Great Heights

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    #6
    OK I figured it out using Blogger Help, finally.

    It is under Blogger Hacks.
    Basically you use blogger tags to specify one title variable for the main page and one title variable if it's a post page.

    So all I did was put these two lines of text for my title tag in the template:
    <MainPage> <Blogger><title><$BlogPageTitle$></title></Blogger> </MainPage>
    <ItemPage> <Blogger><title><$BlogItemTitle$></title></Blogger> </ItemPage>
    Code (markup):
    Which will display the $BlogPageTitle$ if it's the Main Page and the $BlogItemTitle$ if it's a post page.

    Nice and simple, and you don't need the PHP to make it work.
    But thanks for the SEO Tips l0cke. :)

    See it in action at my blog. (linked above thanks to Shawn) :D
     
    Such Great Heights, Sep 13, 2004 IP
  7. l0cke

    l0cke Active Member

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    Ah, thanks. Guess I should have did more research. :)
     
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  8. TwisterMc

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    AWESOME Thanks
     
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    Ooops, That code isn't exactly right. You get multiple title tags!!
     
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    #10
    It's not working for me???
     
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  11. Such Great Heights

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    #11
    OK well it works for me.
    I notice it doesn't work, unless your changing things now on twistermc's site or SEBasic.

    Here are my Blogger settings:
    Settings-->Archiving-->Enable Post Pages? = Yes
    //allows single pages for every post.

    Settings-->Formatting-->Show Title Field = Yes
    //allows me to specify Title when posting.

    And then in my Template I have this code for my Post Title (not page title):
    <BlogItemTitle>
        <BlogItemPermalinkURL>
          <a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>">
            </BlogItemPermalinkURL> 
        <font face="Verdana" size="2"><b><$BlogItemTitle$></a></b>
      </BlogItemTitle>
    Code (markup):
    Thus making the title of the post on the main page link to the single post page.

    Do you guys have different settings?
     
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  12. SEbasic

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    #12
    This is what I have for my posts...

    <div id="mainClm">
    
    
    <!-- Blog Posts -->
    <Blogger>
         <BlogDateHeader>
              <h3><$BlogDateHeaderDate$></h3>
         </BlogDateHeader>
         <a name="<$BlogItemNumber$>"></a>
         <BlogItemTitle><h2><BlogItemURL><a href="<$BlogItemURL$>"></BlogItemURL>
    <$BlogItemTitle$><BlogItemURL></a></BlogItemURL></h2></BlogItemTitle>
    		<div class="blogPost">
              <$BlogItemBody$><br />
              <div class="byline"><a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>" title="permanent link">#</a> posted by <$BlogItemAuthorNickname$> : <$BlogItemDateTime$>
             <MainOrArchivePage><BlogItemCommentsEnabled>&nbsp;<a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogItemCommentCount$> comments</a></BlogItemCommentsEnabled></MainOrArchivePage> <$BlogItemControl$></div>
    		</div>
    Code (markup):
    I have the other setting the same...

    Where have I gone Wrong?

    MAN I find all this stuff hard.
     
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  13. Such Great Heights

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    #13
    Try this:

    <div id="mainClm">


    
    <!-- Blog Posts -->
    <Blogger>
         <BlogDateHeader>
              <h3><$BlogDateHeaderDate$></h3>
         </BlogDateHeader>
    
    <!--Start of Changes-->
    <BlogItemTitle>
        <BlogItemPermalinkURL>
          <h2><a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogItemTitle$></a></h2>
        </BlogItemPermalinkURL>
    </BlogItemTitle>
    <!--End of Changes-->
    
    		<div class="blogPost">
              <$BlogItemBody$><br />
              <div class="byline"><a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>" title="permanent link">#</a> posted by <$BlogItemAuthorNickname$> : <$BlogItemDateTime$>
             <MainOrArchivePage><BlogItemCommentsEnabled>&nbsp;<a href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>"><$BlogItemCommentCount$> comments</a></BlogItemCommentsEnabled></MainOrArchivePage> <$BlogItemControl$></div>
    		</div>
    Code (markup):
    I took out <a name="<$BlogItemNumber$>"></a> because that wasn't even linking anything.

    And basically changed <BlogItemURL> to <BlogItemPermalinkURL>
    See how that works.
    Remember to keep a backup, Just in Case. :D
     
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  14. SEbasic

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    #14
    DUH!!! Man I can be dim :(

    I made all the changes, but everything seems the same.

    Man, Maybe It's just not meant to be.

    I did mess about with the template quite a bit (asthetically), but that shouldn't make a difference.

    Cheers for your help mate.

    I guess I'll always be banished to the realms of poor title tags ;)

    Thanks for trying anyway.
     
    SEbasic, Sep 13, 2004 IP
  15. Such Great Heights

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    #15
    Did you publish your entire blog? and not just the index?

    And it should work because you have the <BlogItemPermalinkURL> link working on the little # and the archive page links on the right.

    You just need the title to link to it. If that's what you want.

    Do you have the code
    <MainPage> <Blogger><title><$BlogPageTitle$></title></Blogger> </MainPage>
    <ItemPage> <Blogger><title><$BlogItemTitle$></title></Blogger> </ItemPage>
    Code (markup):
    In your template do you have this code above where your <title> tag goes?
     
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  16. SEbasic

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    Above the title tag???

    hehe. No.

    Gimme two secs...
     
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    OK, So now it is looking like this...

    <html>
      	<head>
     		<MainPage> <Blogger><title><$BlogPageTitle$></title></Blogger> </MainPage>
     <ItemPage> <Blogger><title><$BlogItemTitle$></title></Blogger> </ItemPage></title>
      <style type="text/css">
      <!--
      @import url(style.css);
      -->
      </style>
      
      
      
          <$BlogMetaData$>
      
      	</head>
      
    Code (markup):
    Where am I going wrong now???

    Sorry for being such a pain.

    EDIT_____

    Man, I just looked at that code again,

    What the hell am I doing with this??? </title>
     
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  18. TwisterMc

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    #18
    I'm so confused anymore. I feel as i've screwed up somethings in my blog. I can't get the email post thing to show and I can't get my recent post to show up on this forum. Man I'm good! ;)
     
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  19. SEbasic

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    #19
    I can see your recent post.

    Free Stock Photography.
     
    SEbasic, Sep 14, 2004 IP
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    #20
    OK, so I know what the problem is...

    Blogger sais that it has uploaded the files to my server, when in fact it hasn't.

    This doesn't make any sense.

    I published the whole blog, then viewed the site files via my FTP client.

    The times are all out.

    It's saying that it has published, yet in the FTP, I can see that the files haven't changed... ?!?!??!?!?!

    What the hell is going on.

    There were no errors publishing at all.

    I know that it isn't uploading, because I tried to add some links to the nav, but they haven't appeared.

    Can someone tell me if I am going crazy...

    Could you view the blog and tell me if there is a like to "nerd dot com" or "A Programmers Ramblings"...

    This is driving me nuts...

    check this out...

    http://www.seo-dev.co.uk/files/preview.gif

    That is the preview blogger gives me.

    I'm pretty sure that the titles will work now, but why is there a problem uploading!?!?!?!?"!?!?!?
     
    SEbasic, Sep 14, 2004 IP