Increase search engine traffic

Here’s a little tweak for your blog’s template if you’re looking to increase traffic through searches by optimizing your blogger’s title for search engines. Not until recently, your Blogger’s blog titles were displayed before the name of your post, making keywords from your post titles appear after your blog title, resulting in poor performance for SEO. Luckily, there’s a way to fix that with a simple tweak and about five minutes of your time.

Steps to follow:

1. Login to your Blogger Dashboard in a new browser window.

2. Go to Layout > Edit HTML (Don’t click on “expand widgets” box)

3. Next, you will need to search for the following section code below:

<title><data:blog.title/></title>

replace the whole code with the section code below:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

4. Preview your template, and if all works fine, Save Template.

Note: If you have customized your template or uploaded a third party template, you will need to change the original <data:blog.pageTitle/> to the new <data:blog.pageName/> tag for this change to take effect. For example:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

replace the section code in red with…

<data:blog.pageName/>

Final product: