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Adding Stylish SEO friendly Titles to Blogger Blogs

adding seo friendly title tags to blogger blogs
Today we’ll do something called ‘Title Swapping’ to make your blog rank better in search results and to get far more clickthroughs. By default blogger provide page titles in the manner that your blog name comes first and then the title of the page. But this is not seo friendly. So we’ll optimize it make it seo friendly and at the same time stylish.
Page title, Why is it so important in SEO? Simple, because it’s what appears in search results and hence brings the traffic to you. Better the page title more the clicks you get.



What we are going to do is.....
Below you can see the default page title you get in blogger
We are going to change it into...

TITLE SWAPPING IN BLOGGER

  • Navigate to Blogger Dashboard > TemplatesSnap_2013.11.16_10h43m57s_001_
  • Now click on EDIT HTML
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  • Find the below code (use CTRL+F to search)
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
  • Replace the above code with the below code
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
title><data:blog.title/></title>
b:else/>
title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
/b:if>

That’s it! Now click Save Template and check your blog to see the changes.

Your Output will be like:

          Your Post Title | Your blog Name                                        


MORE CUSTOMIZATIONS

That was the simplest and the basic way of customizing your blog’s page title. We can do a lot more.

In the line :

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

Change <data:blog.title/> to your desired keywords. For example, if your use Latest Blogger Tutorials instead of <data:blog.title/> you’ll get an output like below.

          How to add SEO friendly Title Tags to Blogger | Latest Blogger Tutorials              

Removing <data:blog.title/> from the line will give you an output just with your post title. See the example,

          How to add SEO friendly Title Tags to Blogger                                                          

OK. Hope you’re done. If you have doubts or suggestions leave a comment. Winking smile

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