Use Blogger? Change your title tags for the best SEO value!

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by cazort, Apr 8, 2011.

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    Do you have a blog hosted on blogger (blogspot)?

    If you do, it's important to realize that the default title tags for individual blog posts are "Blog Name: Post Name". Since your blog name appears first, this makes the name of your individual posts have less SEO value.

    Most users will probably want to either switch this around. For example, on my tea blog, there is a post Tea & Health: Beyond Chemistry. The title tag by default appears as "Alex Zorach's Tea Blog: Tea & Health: Beyond Chemistry". Tea and health are keywords that I want to appear first, so this is harming my blog's visibility in search engines.

    I found a guide today about How to Change Your Blogger Title Tags. It's a really quick-and-easy tip that can have a lot of SEO value for your blog. I just made the change and am eager to see how this affects the ranking of my individual blog posts.

    Cheers!
     
    cazort, Apr 8, 2011 IP
  2. VOnline

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    Yep! Agreed.
     
    VOnline, Apr 8, 2011 IP
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    What about changing your meta description tags per post.

    All the tutorials I've read on that subject require you to add a new tag for each of your posts. That seems silly. Doesn't blogger have an All In One SEO type thing.
     
    sebasago, Apr 9, 2011 IP
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    Yes, I've looked into that and those solutions look like they might be more trouble than they're worth. Let me know though if you find an easy / clean way to do it. Blogger keeps changing things up...the solution about title tags didn't work in the past, and now it does.

    Overall, I think blogger is inferior to Wordpress for SEO, but I have one blogger blog and I'm sticking with it for now...
     
    cazort, Apr 9, 2011 IP