Top 5 Ways to Search engine optimize any Blogger Template

Ever since people have created a blog,they always wanted to be first in  search results.But it is not a easy task.It takes some time and patience and you have to follow some methods to be first on your blogging niche.So in this post we will be dealing with optimization of your blogger template for better search results.

So apply every piece of information given in this post and also don't forget to follow the links because every piece of information in this blog is viable for a successful blog.Please comment for any help or suggestions.

1. Enabling custom Robots.txt

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The default robot.txt or sitemap of blogger is not well designed and thus makes search engines crawl everything (all pages and links) in your blog which will result in problems due to duplication. But for the good part, Blogger gave their bloggers a room to change it as their wish. Here, we make use of that, by limiting the parts of your blog that can be crawled by search engines.
Warning: Incorrect changes made to the robots.txt can make your blog being ignored by search engines.So be Careful

Steps:

• Goto Custom robots.txt in the search preferences tab in settings.
• Copy the below code and paste it there.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow: User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap: http://YOUR BLOG NAME HERE.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=UPDATED

• Change Your blog name here with your blogger name.
• Save it.

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2. Title Tag Optimization

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It is highly important to optimize blog's title as search engines direct viewers into your blog, mainly, on how the search keyword is related to your post title and blog title. It is also seen that, some templates makes your blog title appear before your post title in google or any other search engine.

Steps:

• Open the Template tab and then click on EDIT HTML.
• Search for the following code

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

• Replace it with the below code

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

• Then Save template.

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3. Installation of SEO Optimization Script

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This is a unique step as it has nothing to do with your preexisting codes in your blog. This script can SEO Optimize Blogger template by nothing but it's installation. By installing the script, your blog will open all external links in a new tab and make them nofollow to crawlers and automatically creates alt and title text to all images in your blog. So, your blog's images will be seen on search engines Image part like Google Images.

Steps:

• In the Template tab, click on EDIT HTML.
• Find the following code

</head>

• Copy and paste the blow code above it.

<script src='http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.3.2/jquery.min.js' type='text/javascript'/> <script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[ jQuery('a').each(function(){// Let's make external links open in a new tab. var href=jQuery(this).attr('href');if (typeof href !='undefined' && href !="" && (href.indexOf('http://') !=-1 || href.indexOf('https://') !=-1)&&href.indexOf(window.location.hostname)==-1){jQuery(this).attr("target", "_blank");}});//]]></script> <script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[ jQuery('a').each(function(){// Let's make external links nofollow. var href=jQuery(this).attr('href');if (typeof href !='undefined' && href !="" && (href.indexOf('http://') !=-1 || href.indexOf('https://') !=-1) && href.indexOf(window.location.hostname)==-1){jQuery(this).attr("rel", "nofollow");}});//]]></script> <script type='text/javascript'>//<![CDATA[ $(document).ready(function(){$('img').each(function(){var $img=$(this);var filename=$img.attr('src') $img.attr('alt', filename.substring((filename.lastIndexOf('/'))+1, filename.lastIndexOf('.')));});});//]]></script>

• Save it by clicking on save template.

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4. Ease Search Engines in Crawling your blog

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Search engines also decide in how smooth your blog will sail in future. All posts, to appear in search engines, have to be crawled by them in order to list your post in their results. By the below method, we are making it easy for search engines to crawl your posts and pages.

Steps:

• First backup your template from the template section
• Now open the template tab.

• Click on the EDIT HTML found in Template tab.
• Search for the following code (use Ctrl + F)

<head>

• Copy and paste the below code below it

<meta content='all' name='robots'/>
<meta content='global' name='distribution'/>
<meta content='5 days' name='revisit'/>
<meta content='5 days' name='revisit-after'/>
<meta content='document' name='resource-type'/>
<meta content='all' name='audience'/>
<meta content='general' name='rating'/>
<meta content='index, follow' name='robots'/>
<meta content='en' name='language'/>
<meta content='ENTER YOUR NAME HERE' name='Author'/>
<meta content='ENTER YOUR E-MAIL' name='Email'/>
<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<link href='https://plus.google.com/u/0/YOUR ID/' rel='author'/>

• Save the template.

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5. Setting up Custom robots header tags

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Custom robots header tag can also decide which all links of your blog like Archive pages, labels, posts and pages have to be crawled by search engines. We hereby avoid the crawling of archive links and labels by search engines.

Warning: Incorrect use of this may result in your blog being ignored by search engines

Steps:

• Open Custom Header tag located in search preferences in settings tab.
• Tick only the boxes and specified in the below image.

• Verify that you have only ticked the correct ones.
• Click on save changes.

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That's it :)

Enjoy blogging...

If you have any doubts please comment below.

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