Google blogger or BlogSpot is one of the most popular blogging platforms in the world. It's a free open source and the best blogging platform.
I personally like Blogger because you can start your online business today with Blogspot with free of cost.
Let's talk about Search Engine Optimization(SEO) for the blogger(BlogSpot) website.
If we compare between BlogSpot or WordPress then BlogSpot has the limitation of optimizing it for the search engine compare to WordPress.
But here I will give you Best On-page SEO tips and tricks for BlogSpot website.
BlogSpot SEO
We do SEO, to drive more organic traffic towards our blog. No matter how much unique content you write, if you are not good with Search Engine Optimization then surely you will lose most of the traffic you earn.
There are many BlogSpot SEO guides that you will find on the Internet to make your blog SEO friendly.
Here I have shared some of the most important steps for better BlogSpot SEO.
Step-1
Confirm your website settings are ok
Some of the basic steps to add Title, Description tag, HTTPS Availability, HTTPS Redirect, Custom robots.txt, Custom robots header tags.
My suggestion is to enable HTTPS Redirect for your domain.
Step2
Add HTML Meta Tags to Your Blogger Website.
HTML Meta Tags are located inside your HTML’s head area<head>…Meta tags…</head>.
- So go to Theme in your blog admin panel then click on Edit HTML.
- Now search for <head>, After searching the <head> tag add all HTML Meta Tags in between <head> and </head>.
Add Responsive Meta Tags
Its help your website for Mobile friendly.
<meta content='width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0' name='viewport'/>
Convert Title Tags into Dynamic Title Tags
Title Tags always help SEO.In your website, meta <Title> tag is the most important on-page SEO factor. Search engines view meta title tag as the title of your page.
- Go to Blogger edit HTML find out this code
<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>
- And change this code with below code.
<title>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'>
<data:blog.pageTitle/>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType != "error_page"'>
<data:blog.pageName/> -
<data:blog.title/>
<b:else/>
ERROR 404 -
<data:blog.title/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</title>
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Add Meta Description and Keywords
- Add meta description and meta keywords after Titel tag.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content='YOUR DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='YOUR KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageTitle' name='Description'/>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName + ", YOUR KEYWORDS HERE "' name='keywords'/>
</b:if>
NOTE: Google has cleared it won’t consider meta keywords as their positioning element.Still, we can utilize it for other Search engines like Bing, Yahoo, Baidu.
On page SEO For Blogger(Blogspot)
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