115 comments

SEO Tips for Blogger Blogs

IFB » Traffic and SEO » SEO Tips for Blogger Blogs

SEO Tips for Blogger Blogs: How to Make Your Blog More Searchable

Blogger a.k.a. Blogspot is a great publishing platform for new bloggers. Owned by Google, Blogger blogs are easy to set up and very user friendly. The downside is that it can be more difficult to manage SEO settings. In this post, we’re discussing SEO tips for Blogger blogs and how to make your blog more searchable in Google.

In today's digital age, having a strong online presence is essential for any business or individual looking to make an impact. This is where search engine optimization (SEO) comes in. By optimizing your website and content for search engines, you can increase your visibility online, drive traffic to your site, and ultimately boost your success. However, with so many different strategies and techniques involved in SEO, it can be overwhelming to know where to start. This is where Digiguidance, a leading SEO service provider, comes in to help. With their expert guidance and support, businesses and individuals can navigate the world of SEO and achieve their online goals.

Unlike in WordPress, where users can download plugins to manage their SEO settings (like Yoast), getting your Blogger blog to rank in Google can be a bit more of a challenge. We all know how important SEO is, when it comes to blogging and driving traffic to our respective sites. Therefore, if you’re committed to creating a successful blog with Blogger, check out these basic SEO tips for Blogger blogs below.

Do you have a blog? Don't know where to begin with SEO?

Check out IFB's “SEO Essentials 10 Day Course for Bloggers”. We demystify SEO, give you all the tips and tricks, and make it easy for bloggers of all levels to understand.

SEO Tips for Blogger Blogs

Descriptive Titles

It sounds like an easy step, but it’s often overlooked by bloggers of all kinds (regardless of publishing platform of choice). This step is essential for seo marketing. Make your titles really descriptive and they’ll be more likely to be indexed by Google (and other search engines).

For example “Dramatically Tailored Vest: Best Clothing Item of Fall 2017” can be considered a strong, descriptive title; whereas, “Great Vest” is very broad and generic. “Great Vest” isn’t nearly as specific as “Dramatically Tailored Vest: Best Clothing Item of Fall 2017”. When it doubt try to be as precise as possible when titling your posts.

Make your titles specific and descriptive, and you will have a higher chance of your Blogger blog ranking in Google.

Descriptive Links

The purpose of descriptive links is to provide readers with the proper context of where clicking the link will take them.

Readers will often navigate the web by going from link to link, so it’s important that you provide them with proper link text so they know what to expect from click on the link. Avoid using phrases such as “Click Here” or “More”. Blogger’s built-in screen reading software should make it evident to your readers, so you don’t need to specify to your readers where links are, within your posts.

Essentially, it’s better to link to an entire phrase or sentence, than “Click Here” or “More”.

Headings Within Your Posts

Any text within an HTML tag is treated with higher priority in a search engine (this also goes for bold text, numbered and un-numbered lists, etc.). Therefore, you should be using headings and subheadings within your posts whenever you have the opportunity.

Another added bonus: headings and subheadings also make it easier for your readers to skim through your content. If your posts are easier to read, readers will keep coming back to your site and your readership retention will increase.

Here is a brief HTML description of how to use a heading in Blogger…

Write your informative and interesting post.
Click on the Edit Html tab at the top of the post.
Find the text you want to format as a heading.
At the start of the text type <h1> and at the end type </h1>. All HTML tags use the left and right angle brackets and the closing tag always uses the / symbol (that way you know it is the closing pair of the tab.
Switch back to the Compose tab and check the result. If the text is too big, switch back and try using the <h2> </h2> tags, or even h3 or less until you get a look that works for you.
Save or publish your post!

Alt Tags For Images

As a bloggers, you should be including images in your posts, in order to draw your readers in and get people to read your text (and if you aren’t including images, you should start incorporating them asap). You also need to be giving your images good alt attributes, as “…alt tags and title tags strengthen the message towards search engine spiders and improve the accessibility of your website”.

What exactly does an alt tag on an image do for you and your Blogger blog? It will make your pictures more likely to be indexed by a search engine.

Here is how to do it specifically in Blogger…

Write another informative and interesting post.
Upload your photos into your post and position them to your liking.
Click on the Edit Html tab at the top of new post.
Look for the images in the text, they start with the code <img…
Scroll along each <img> tag looking for the text alt=”” (use the search function in your browser if this makes it easier.
Add your descriptive text within the quotes, including your site name. I might have something like alt=”Fabulous fashion @ Individual Chic”.
Save or publish your post.

Making The Most of Meta Tags

What exactly are Meta tags?

Meta tags are snippets of text that describe a page's content in various search engines. They don't appear on the posts themselves, only within the pages’ code. Meta tags are more or less the same thing as a tag; they’re like little content descriptors, that help to tell search engines what a web page or blog is about.

Essentially, Meta tags are a way to add keywords and descriptions to your blog.

Here is how to add a meta tag to Blogger blog…

Go to your Blogger Dashboard.
Click on the Theme tab and then Edit HTML.
Click on the link that says Download Full Template. Save the template somewhere on your hard drive with a nice descriptive name. THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. If you screw things up, you want to be able to go back to a working copy.
Look for the <head> tag. It should be right at the top of the Edit Template window. Put a couple of blank lines below it
Type in the tag below, substituting your name
<meta content='[INSERT NAME HERE]' name='author'/>
Add another line and type in
<meta content='[INSERT BLOG DESCRIPTION HERE]' name='description'/>
Add a last line and type in
<meta content='[INSERT ALL DESCRIPTION KEYWORDS HERE (SEPARATED BY COMMAS)]' name='keywords'/>
Click the Save Template button
Load up your page and check it all works.

Looking for More SEO Tips? Check out “5 Ways to Drive Blog Traffic by Using SEO” here on the IFB Blog.

And if you're looking for marketing tips for your blog, check out “Effective Marketing Tactics That Can Boost Your Blog”.

115 Responses

Fasshonaburu June 10, 2009

Yes, once I started using alt tags in my pics I started getting SO much more traffic! I work in SEO and another good tip is linking back to your old posts!

Reply
- EarthAndroid February 22, 2021
  
  Exactly , linking back to your old post is awesome technique
  
  Reply
maria June 10, 2009

Thanks so much for the tips!! All things I need to start doing!!

Reply
Sydney June 10, 2009

I tried the meta tags, but it keeps say that my tags aren’t closed. is there a way you could post an example of what it’s supposed to look like. like an example of one that;s already been done?

Sydney’s last blog post..Internship

Reply
lisa June 10, 2009

Great tips! I should step up the HTML tagging and not be so lazy about it.

lisa’s last blog post..Ooh La La RUCHE

Reply
Sydney June 10, 2009

never mind i figured it out.

Sydney’s last blog post..Internship

Reply
Kate June 10, 2009

Keywords in your images are key. Most of my traffic comes from my images because of using key words. I also use the All in One SEO Pack plugin for WordPress. It allows you to use what ever title you want on your blog, but then make a more SEO friendly title for search engines, plus highlight keywords as well, pretty awesome. I’ve heard from multiple people that meta tags are a thing of the past, but then again I’m not an expert 🙂

Kate’s last blog post..Huge Karma Loop Sale

Reply
KB June 10, 2009

Meta tags sound great. I always wonder how people keep finding my images though, certain ones pop up more than others in my stats. Informative post.

KB’s last blog post..Time on my hands…

Reply
Yvonne June 10, 2009

Hi, thanks so much for posting this. I didn’t know about the alt tag thing. I’ve always noticed that alt=”” part and wondered what it was for though!

could you explain more about the descriptive links? I’ve seen that blank space for it under the title, but don’t know how to use it.

Also, is it possible to log into the new IFB yet?

Yvonne’s last blog post..The Apartment

Reply
Icy June 10, 2009

Fasshonaburu – great tip, thanks for that.
Maria – you’re welcome ^_^
Sydney – glad you worked it out
Lisa – I do think it’s worth the extra effort, I just have to remember to do it myself ^_^
Kate – ooh, great tip for WordPress users!
KB – you’re welcome also.

Reply
thefatandskinny June 10, 2009

thanks for the advice. i was waiting for someone to do a post on blogger blogs.

thefatandskinny’s last blog post..Glass House

Reply
Gabrielle June 10, 2009

Another way to boost targeted searchability is to have a keyword in the first sentence of your blog post.

Google also picks up on words that are bolded or in italics.

And Kate is right, the All In One SEO Pack for wordpress is awesome.

Another good plugin for wordpress is Google XML Sitemaps which automatically builds you a sitemap that’s compatible with major search engines like Google or Yahoo.

As for descriptive links, you can have wordpress set so that it automatically will use your post title as the link instead of random numbers or dates.

If you have the money for it you can use a service like SubmitYourArticle.com which would essentially send your original content (has to be good content) to thousands of publishers. It’s a win-win situation, the publishers get good content and you get links back. My company is testing out how well this actually works and if it’s worth paying the monthly fee.

Thanks for the post! Will definitely start using alt tags for my pictures. 🙂

Gabrielle’s last blog post..Cats Are The New Black

Reply
Leigh June 10, 2009

Thanks so much for these great tips! I never thought about alt tags for photos making a difference like that, but it totally makes sense. I know meta tags work, too, but I didn’t think you could use them on Blogger. Thanks again!

Reply
sar. June 11, 2009

this is a great post – i think I’ll get that wordpress plug-in gabrielle mentions..I guess it’s worth the little extra effort when writing a post .. Thanks Icy! Oh and has someone a good traffic report suggestion, I use the one provided byt the host service but it’s not very detailed.. Thak you 🙂

Reply
Anna June 11, 2009

I second All in One SEO and Google XML Sitemap plugins for WordPress. Regarding meta-tags: Google is finicky about duplicate meta-tags. To them, it makes it hard to distinguish between what may or may not be duplicate content. Ideally, you want different meta title, description and keywords for EACH of your posts (particularly title and description tags, as Google no longer uses keyword tags…although other search engines do). It sounds like a lot of work, but if you get something like All in One SEO (for WordPress only), you can easily edit meta-tags within each post. Also, If you sign up for a Google Webmaster account, Google will warn you what pages have duplicate meta-tags.

Note: while Google doesnt seem to penalize you for duplicate meta-tags (it’s more of a warning/nudge), any bit helps in terms of SEO.

Anna’s last blog post..Hottest Summer Sandals for 2009: Gladiators Flats & High Heel Shoes

Reply
Icy June 11, 2009

Gabrielle – great tips, thanks!
Najeema – you’re welcome
Leigh – you’re also welcome
Sar. – you’re also welcome too. I use Google Analytics and find it very effective.
Anna – good ad vice about the meta tags, but when I check out my blog in Google Webmaster it doesn’t report the problem you described, so I assume Blogger takes care of it.

Thanks for all the great comments!

Reply
michelle June 19, 2009

Heeeeelp I cant figure out why my meta tag is not working?? I keep getting what Sydney was gettin, except I can’t figure mine out please help??? This is what I put in my htm mods.

I can’t seem to figure out where I went wrong :< Thanks Michelle

Reply
Icy June 20, 2009

Hey Michelle, the html doesn’t seem to come through, but for the closing to the meta tag make sure there is a space between the closing quote and the final slash. The other thing you can try is to look at the source of a blogger page and just cut and paste the tag from there. Right click on a page (like my one) and then choose “veiw source” from the menu. The meta tag should be at the top of the page.

Let me know how it goes.

Thanks

Icy.
.-= Icy´s last blog ..An Individual Chic – Emma Herring (Mrs Bruce Willis) =-.

Reply
Miss Wan June 26, 2009

I immediately did the photo tagging! Will up the courage for the meta tags 2mro 🙂

Reply
Icy June 27, 2009

Recessionista, you’re welcome ^_^
Miss Wan, go for it!
.-= Icy´s last blog ..In other news… =-.

Reply
Butterfly June 29, 2009

Aha…found an answer to one of my questions about tagging images and now I know how to do it…wonderful!
.-= Butterfly´s last blog ..Glastonbury Fashion =-.

Reply
Icy June 30, 2009

Hey Butterfly, glad I could help.
.-= Icy´s last blog ..An individual dude – Michael Jackson =-.

Reply
FC July 13, 2009

Wow.. Is it magic or is because im slow in technology…
Within minutes my traffic raised !!!
Thank you for the post.. Love it

FC
.-= FC´s last blog ..My Car !!!! =-.

Reply
Icy July 16, 2009

Hey FC, I’m impressed it worked so fast! Gald I could help.
.-= Icy´s last blog ..Today I’m wearing… =-.

Reply
- Tech Me March 25, 2017
  
  Nice Thank You For Sharing Can You Tell Me How To Use Adsense or other Ads In Blog??
  
  Reply
Danielle - The Culturistas July 26, 2009

Thanks so much for the tips Icy!! So helpful- I just set up the meta-tags and it wasnt as intimidating as I thought! Also I was having the same problem as Michelle at first. My issue was that I used ‘ instead of ” Hope that helps!

Reply
Mademoiselle Le K July 30, 2009

Can I use those tips for my WordPress.com blog?
.-= Mademoiselle Le K´s last blog ..Ann Demeulemesteer: Men Collection Spring-Summer 2010 =-.

Reply
Elle August 31, 2009

Great tips, thanks Icy 🙂
I immediately tried the meta tags and photo tags, so easy to do.
When I first heard of SEO, my non-technical side goes into panic mode! But with a lot of tips out there, including this, it helps us (not-so-much-techi-people) understand and make use of it to help us promote our blog.
.-= Elle´s last blog ..9 Reasons why we need to over dress =-.

Reply
- Np December 6, 2009
  
  nice Info!!! it helped me alot!
  
  Reply
Tarun Sardana September 1, 2009

Hey Icy,
Thanks for the tips. Sydney and michelle didn’t bother to revert with their findings. The tag not closed error is coming coz of the single quotes used by you in the example. It should be double quotes not single. i.e.
instead of , it should be . Please make the necessary changes above to avoid any inconvenience to the other readers.
The tips are really helpful. Thanks again.
.-= Tarun Sardana´s last blog ..Realization =-.

Reply
Brandy Bell September 24, 2009

I started blogging less than a year ago and I feel like there is so much to learn and do, it could definitely be a full time job. Thanks for the great tips!

Reply
Franca October 1, 2009

Hi, thanks for this! I was having the same problem as sydney and michelle, but after copying the code from your page it worked. Slightly weird since it was exactly the same as what it said before, but it works, so I’m not complaining!

Reply
brent October 2, 2009

great article! Seems more complicated than it actually is. The code works perfectly. I wish we never had to deal with code ever!

Reply
TheShoeGirl October 2, 2009

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! This is amazing 🙂

Reply
katy October 14, 2009

Uh oh… I did everything as written above and when I finished, I went to my blog to double-check that everything went well.

I right-clicked my blog page, hit “View Source” and my html had this imbedded in it:

“Notify Blogger about Objectionable Content on this page” – what? they flagged my blog?!?!

How do I fix? Do I just have too many keywords?

Reply
Icy @ Individual Chic October 15, 2009

Danielle – thanks for the tip!
Mademoiselle Le K – Err, I think so, but I don’t how you would get to the place to enter the information
Elle – glad I could help
Tarun – thanks for the clarification
Sonia – it takes a few days, or even weeks, for your blog to be searched by Google. Try now, and if it still doesn’t work, look for something called “Google Webmaster Tools” and investigate that.
Kiki Hiller – You’re welcome.
Brandy Bell – I’d love to make blogging a full time job too, but there are too many other things I “have” to do first (like working ^_^)
Franca – Glad it worked for you.
Brent – They hide a lot of code, which is good, but to make it really individual you have to get in there and mess around.
TheShoeGirl – You’re also welcome.
Katy – No need to worry. The “Notify Blogger about Objectionable Content on this page” actually comes from the “source” of the Blogger tool bar across the top of the page. If you look at the source of any other Blogger page with the tool bar you’ll see the same thing. It’s not anything in your code or your page.

Sorry everyone it’s taken so long to get back to you all, and I’m so pleased you’ve been finding these instructions helpful.

Thanks

Icy.
.-= Icy @ Individual Chic´s last blog ..Vintage Icy – Details are everything =-.

Reply
HEK October 30, 2009

Wow, this was very informative. I’m pretty much clueless on these things, but now Im inspired to get more into it! Thanks:)
.-= HEK´s last blog ..From Russia with love =-.

Reply
HEK November 2, 2009

I was wondering about something:
I use photobucket for my images, and in the html text there is no such thing as alt=””..
Can I just add it myself? And in that case where?

Thanks:)
.-= HEK´s last blog ..My style: Darker for colder =-.

Reply
charles November 12, 2009

how cool! i never knew any of this!!!! you are a genius =D

Reply
Michael November 26, 2009

Thanks for the helpul tips. I just started my blogger site. Michael of Apartment Guide Marketing.

Reply
Chinthu November 29, 2009

Hey thanks for the tips. I was not using the tags for pictures in my blog.
I will try it now.
Thanks once more.
.-= Chinthu´s last blog ..Pune Spider : Information portal for Pune city. =-.

Reply
vinda December 4, 2009

hey great post! this is so inspiring. want to try the meta content but i’m too afraid of template failure eventhough that seems like the coolest idea here.
thank you anyway 🙂

Reply
kenny December 4, 2009

Please help
I keep getting this error
Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.

Reply
Vegetarian Traveller December 7, 2009

Thanks. I have added the header, added metatags and added tags to my images. My blog is a week old and am still not linked on any of the search indexes. I did submit my URL to google, but find it impossible to get submission through on yahoo. Did anyone else experience issue?
Typically how long has it taken for your blog to become searchable. I use blogger.
.-= Vegetarian Traveller´s last blog ..Breakfast at the French Quarter: Brennan’s =-.

Reply
Graham Thomas December 8, 2009

Thank you so much for these helpful posts. I never thought I could make my own blog not being computer savvy, but you’ve broken down the complex mysteries of a successful blog into plain simple english!

Again I thank you.
.-= Graham Thomas´s last blog ..Women’s Wear Silhouettes =-.

Reply
B V Pramod December 9, 2009

Thanks for a description of how to make a blog searchable

Reply
Jill December 23, 2009

hmmmmmm…..this message keep coming out!! how come??? where did I go wrong???

I did this:

how come??please help!!

Reply
Icy @ Individual Chic December 29, 2009

HEK – you can use photo bucket or any other image store. You just add the alt=”..” tag within the ‘style’ section of the html. Try just after the height or width tag.
Charles – *blush*
Nina, Michael, Chinthu, Vinda – you’re welcome ^_^

Kenny – the html doesn’t seem to come through, but for the closing to the meta tag make sure there is a space between the closing quote and the final slash. The other thing you can try is to look at the source of a blogger page and just cut and paste the tag from there. Right click on a page (like my one) and then choose “veiw source” from the menu. The meta tag should be at the top of the page. Also try swapping single quotes ‘ for double quotes “. It might depend on if you are using CSS or standard HTML tagging.

Vegetarian Traveller – I’d hope your blog would be indexed by now (you should wait at least two weeks) but if not search for “Google Webmaster Tools” and sign up with those to see if you can diagnose the problem.
Graham, BV – You’re also welcome ^_^
Jill – I’m not sure what the message is, but read what I’ve said to Kenny.
.-= Icy @ Individual Chic´s last blog ..Ambra’s new Killer Figure =-.

Reply
John January 20, 2010

Good post thank you, baut Backlinks is everything

Reply
jake February 20, 2010

I do not really get what you mean. Is it possible to increase traffic to my blog by going to picassa and tagging all the pictures i have uploaded? because i cant change the html coding of the uploaded pics frm my blogger.

Reply
jkcounterpuncher February 22, 2010

Thanks, it is a very helpful post. I will do it for my blog.

Reply
Monica February 24, 2010

Thanks for this post! I’ll try it as soon as I wake up

Reply
Aly March 2, 2010

Super super helpful. Thank you!

Reply
tara March 8, 2010

Great post. thanks ! I will try all of the above

I am just getting use to everything and trying to expand my following …so this helps
thanks again
.-= tara´s last blog ..John Issac & Friends :Provactive Art =-.

Reply
Shelayna March 20, 2010

Thank you for this information. As a technophobic blogger, I am excited to try some of these techniques! You Rock!
.-= Shelayna´s last blog ..The Pacific! =-.

Reply
Vegetarian Traveller March 21, 2010

Thanks! Great tips.
.-= Vegetarian Traveller´s last blog ..Laspada’s Original Hoagies – Davie, FL =-.

Reply
tara March 24, 2010

Hello, about the meta tag- I followed your steps and I cant seem to get it to work :/ …..It comes back at me with an error, saying something is’nt closed like the (tag) but the code is copy and pasted from your instructions,…so Im not sure how to go about this to change it ? Thanks-good post btw 🙂

And I have a blogger blog 🙂

Reply
StyleNuggets March 24, 2010

Hello
I’m posting this again as it came back with an error.
I’ve used the tips you mentioned above and hoping they will work for my blog.
Thanks

Reply
vicki March 25, 2010

Definately gonna try out using meta tags!! 🙂
thank you for your simple instructions for non techies like me! x

Reply
hadashi March 30, 2010

thanks for the great tips and for making it easy.
i ran into the same trouble as “Kenny,” and swapping the single quotes for double quotes did the trick.
much appreciated!

Reply
StyleNuggets March 30, 2010

Thought I’d leave an update to say…..it works. I took the time to re-do my blogs as per the tips above and my traffic increased. Thanks IFB and Icy.
Don’t know what I’d have done without this post. A lot of tips on other sites are too detailed or too hard to understand.

Reply
missjahz April 5, 2010

When I added meta tags, this always appears:

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “content”.

I really do not know why. I’m sure I followed the instructions correctly.

Reply
- Tara April 11, 2010
  
  Hey Im having the same problems… Let me know if you figure anything out and I will do the same! seems like no one wants to add any additional help here 🙁
  .-= Tara ´s last blog ..DIY: Studded Bustier (part uno) =-.
  
  Reply
Jen April 9, 2010

This was great. Just put in my meta tags. Thanks! 🙂

Reply
JESSU April 22, 2010

Instead of going back to the html (a pain, I’ve tried it when I wanted to fix other problems) of a post to add alt tags to your images I would recommend just typing out the html for the images. I type out links so that I can add a target=”_blank” function to it so I think if you want to add alt it would be easier to do it from the beginning. Just make sure you dont’ save the draft first because the html will be converted instantly!

I’m not sure though, for the images it’s recommended that we just add our blog name? Or what does this mean? How does that help us?

Reply
Julia May 3, 2010

Hello 🙂 I followed your instructions regarding meta tags, but it came up with all sorts of error messages. I’ll ask my boyfriend the computer-wizard to fix it later!
.-= Julia´s last blog ..College =-.

Reply
Freya Harris May 9, 2010

I use both Picassa and Flickr for sharing photos over the internet but i use Flickr more often than Picassa.-,.

Reply
Game reviews June 23, 2010

Really nice info given………
can someone tell me kindly how I can add rss feed to my blog.

Thanks

.-= Game reviews´s last blog ..Prince of Persia The Sands Of Time(*******—/10) =-.

Reply
T-rex January 6, 2011

Hi,

Im trying to add meta tags to my blog but I am getting the following error:

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “content”.

My meta tags are designed as follows:

Can someone please tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thankx for your help!!!

Reply
T-rex January 6, 2011

Hi,

Im trying to add meta tags to my blog but I am getting the following error:

Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “content”.

My meta tags are designed as follows:

meta content=’T-Rex’ name=’author’/

meta content=’Lyrics from “Empire State of Mind” from Jay-Z’s 11th studio album The Blueprint 3 (2009).’ name=’description’/

meta content=’JayZ, Illuminati’ name=’keywords’/

Ofcourse I will add a “” at the end of each tag marked by a “/”.

Can someone please tell me what I’m doing wrong?

Thankx for your help!!!

Reply
T-rex January 6, 2011

The quotes above are supposed to have a greater than and less than symbol.

Reply
sham January 10, 2011

hi, for those who have the meta content, replace the ’ in code with ‘. Its because xml coding doesn’t recognize ’. I tried it in my blog and its working fine.

Reply
Tricia March 1, 2011

Thanks so much for this info! I just added meta tags. I got an error message at first, but I realized that I had included an apostrophe (‘) in one of my tags and it was messing up the code.

Reply
vanessa March 8, 2011

I am having isssues with the meta tags showing up on my blog, and I’m just getting error messages.

Reply
Amazing July 18, 2011

This is realy nice artical. I learn lot of things for blogging. Thank you very much!!!

Keep it up.

Reply
Saudi July 18, 2011

I use this tip for my blog , It’s getting more traffic now thankx web master.

Reply
Kamil Marecki July 25, 2011

Thanks ! I used this tips on myblog and we will see 😉

Reply
ClinicalEyes September 22, 2011

is XHTML code is necessory for the blog to be more searchable
?
or html is enough?

Reply
aiz September 23, 2011

Hello! this is a great post. can you please help me. I’m trying to do the meta tag, but this error always appear when I save the template

Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “name”.

Reply
Lucy December 11, 2011

All those having problems with xml, just change all the apostrophes: ‘
with double quote marks: ”

in the bits your copying. It will work!

xxx

Reply
Zara December 7, 2012

I can’t see anything that says ‘ on the template designer so am still not able to add any tags to make my blog more searchable!

are you able to help?

thank you!

Reply
Makenna August 14, 2013

a bit confusing. what exactly do these different features DO? like what are the advantages? i just would like more traffic on my blog. well, that’s okay. i figured it out 🙂

Reply
Angelica September 13, 2013

One stop shop. Makes my life easier! Thanks!

Reply
lamzboy December 27, 2013

Greats its very helpful thanks…

Reply
WilmottsWonders January 10, 2014

Thanks so much for this – it’s exactly what I was looking for to explain this stuff! One thing to note is that the =alt”” format has changed on blogger. I searched the html and couldn’t find it but when I clicked on the pictures when in compose on my blogger and went to properties you could fill in the alt text there.
Thanks again 🙂

Reply
Everythingformysons November 11, 2014

Good advice, i just started my blog and still learning for it

Reply
Shilpa Gandotra May 1, 2015

Nice and quick list of how-tos for blogger. I have been doing all this but haven’t noticed any difference. Somehow I feel in my own searches blogs on wordpress come up more often than blogspot blogs. I also notice search results showing something like

Tags: review, beauty

for blogs on wordpress but not for blogspot.
Any idea?

Reply
Jay Lee May 22, 2016

Didn’t actually work for me :/

Reply
Nadina June 4, 2016

Thanks for these great tips! Will definitely try these!

Reply
Gonath January 11, 2017

This is great. Added alt tag for all images in my blog.

Reply
Sana February 14, 2017

Thank you so much for this article, Icy. I was searching for the same thing and I am glad that you have a wonderful post on it. I have already tried a few things from the list and I am waiting to see the results 🙂

Reply
abhay October 1, 2017

thanks for the code and good explanation !!

Reply
abhay October 24, 2017

wounder full article all explained in detail in the simplest possible way !!

Reply
Justin K. November 13, 2017

Looks like you’ve covered the basic of onsite optimization. Good job! I would suggest one more tip and that is to aim for long content, 1000 words+ if possible.

Reply
Paulo December 14, 2017

“Edit HTML” is located in “Theme” not in “Layout”.

Reply
- Laura Kell December 14, 2017
  
  Thanks for correcting this, Paulo! We’ll be sure to edit and add it in.
  
  Reply
jon December 18, 2017

I did the meta tags! Let’s see……………………..

Reply
Assisted Living Facility January 10, 2018

Very informative article, keep sharing good things.
Thanks for this article.

Reply
Bharat January 11, 2018

Thanks for the wonderful tips. your post is excellent and so informative. its really helpful for a beginner blogger like me. keep up the good work.

Reply
Manisha March 18, 2018

Though you blog post is very old for Blogspot blogs in respect to SEO but some of the points are still relevant. I use many of these SEO points for blog for Latest Government Jobs in India which I am running since 2006. I think Blogspot blogs are leg behind in SEO in comparison to other blog platforms. My blog is at https://www.SarkariNaukriBlog.com

Reply
Afrasiab March 26, 2018

Hi Laura, Thanks for providing such a nice post with great SEO tips. Well doing SEO for blogger blog is a bit difficult the wordpress but the tips you provided are very vital for new bloggers who want to rank their blogger blog higher in search results. Thanks!

Reply
Nitin Garg April 4, 2018

Thank you for the SEO tips, It will help me a lot. Can you give me some tips on off page seo ? Hope you will keep on posting to update us.

Reply
Stalin April 5, 2018

Great post!! You are absolutely bang on.

Everything you have mentioned in this post is incredibly helpful for bloggers. This tips will useful for bloggers to increase a number of followers and increase traffic on your blog.

Thanks for sharing.

Reply
James April 11, 2018

Laura, thanks for sharing those tips for blogging! I find it very helpful. I also want to pay attention to alt tags, because long time ago I haven’t even know about it and my blog wasn’t on top for some time. After I started searching I found information about alt tags and how they are important. I wrote a laconic blog how to use alt tags – sitechecker.pro/alt-tags/ I hope you fing it useful for your blog or even a web site.

Reply
komal April 14, 2018

This is something great and full of information. I love blogger and I am happy to choose my platform with the help of this. Blogging is a type of mind mapping game in which you have to use ur mind to create some unique ideas every time. Thanks, a lot mate for the post. keep posting !!

Reply
George Lim April 25, 2018

Great post Laura, This is something that every blogger should know. You are doing good job . Keep this up.

Reply
Alex May 29, 2018

It is a major point you mentioned above that headings and subheadings must be easier for readers to skim through your content. I hope your all steps are very helpful for all. Keep it up!!!

Reply
Okere chinedu victor June 9, 2018

Pls someone should tell this guy that his a life saver.????

Reply
Anjali June 22, 2018

I really enjoyed from reading the article above, You have explained everything in detail about SEO tips. Surely I will use this tips to build a SEO strategy for my business growth

Reply
Thomes August 21, 2018

Nice Post !! But do you have any idea how to link our website along with keywords for getting quality backlink ? and what type of keywords we should use for anchor tag: exact match or something else ?

Thanks !!

Reply
Amit November 12, 2018

Thanks for sharing, I totally agree with you. Initially I never focused on ALT tags at all. But when I started using our ranks started coming up.

Reply
Ahaduzzaman March 22, 2019

Hi Laura,
Thanks you so much for these great tips!
I was not informed that alt tags for photos making a difference. However, I know meta tags work too. I plan to follow your tips for longer period.
Thanks again!

Reply
Akki Rockk April 14, 2019

Dear Laura
Meta tag should be separate for each blog post and define in between head tag or it can be defined only one time for complete description of Blog in the head tag ?

Reply
Blue Dragoness Blog April 2, 2021

Thanks for your tips!

These two tips below worked on my blog.

As for the keywords, it didn’t work. 🙁 I can’t figure it out on how I can include keywords on my blog.

Sought-after post of Blue Dragoness Blog: Never Too Old For A New Dream

Reply
Ethan Poltrack December 1, 2021

I started a site back in 2012 and just found it again. It was my My Personal Development Plan and what I did when I was first getting started online.

Reply