Improve Your Google Rankings in One Easy Step

Posted: Friday, January 9th, 2009 | Author: David

seo your website Having a top rank in Google is the holy grail for anyone who has a website. Organic Google traffic is free advertising and how most bloggers (especially those just starting out) achieve visitors and traffic to their site. It all comes down to a simple numbers game. Essentially, more traffic = more money-making opportunities from your blog. The question is, how do you get ranked higher for my blog posts using Blogger?

Before I tell you how, let me give you a quick lesson is search engine optimization (aka SEO). There are two main components: “off-page” and “on-page” optimization. “Off-page” SEO refers to tactics such as link building. The more websites that point their links to your blog/website, the better. It’s a democratic way of showing Google that your site must be important if lots of people are pointing to it. Even more important with “off-page” inbound links is the actual link text (anchor text) that is used to point to your site.

Here’s my proof. If you search Google for the term “click here” you’ll see that Adobe Reader and Apple’s Quicktime software are in the top 3 results. Why? Because so many other sites are linking to these two sites with “click here” as the anchor text to download their software. That’s the power of “off-page” SEO which you as a blogger can’t do much about besides writing such great unique content that generates lots of links.

So with “on-page” SEO you have complete control over how well you’re optimized for Google. This includes keywords in your post titles, title tags, using header tags (h1, h2) and other tactics. Now the one we’re going to focus on in this article is the blog title tag.

Title tags are one of the most (if not the most) important “on-page” elements to ranking high in Google. Search engines such as Google weigh the importance of each word in the title from left to right. So ideally you want your blog post title all the way to the left and your actual blog name to the right. Below is a perfect example of how this should look. You can also check out our Premium Revolution Template which is currently using this technique as well.

blogger seo title

Blogger templates by default don’t come with search engine optimized (SEO) title tags meaning you aren’t maximizing your blog to rank better in Google. If you take a look at your existing Blogger title you’ll see that blogger displays the blog name first then followed by your post title. They have it backwards so let’s get your blog setup properly.

We’re going to have to make a quick edit to your Blogger template which might intimidate some of you but it’s very small and painless. All I ask you to do first is to backup your template just in case you make a boo boo. That makes it easy to revert back without much headache.

Step #1

In your Blogger dashboard, go to “Layout” => “Edit HTML”.

Step #2

In the template code, do a search for this: <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>. It’s usually in the first 5-10 lines of code in your template near the top.

Step #3

Replace that bit of code with the following code:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'> <title><data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title> </b:if>

Step #4

Save your template and go back to your blog. Click into any individual post and look at the page title.

All your blogger posts are now much better optimized to rank higher in Google. I’m not going to promise you a night and day difference but you’ve taken a step in the right direction. Now just go post unique high quality content so people searching Google will find your blog first!

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526 Responses to “Improve Your Google Rankings in One Easy Step”

moonheart on Jul 11, 2009, 6:40 am

Thank you lots.I use your code and there is no any problem arise. Lets have see my traffic later. Thank you lots.

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"Monster Man" on Jul 12, 2009, 2:22 am

I made the changes to a number of my blogs and I’m hoping to see some positive results. Thanks a lot.

Betsy B.Honest on Jul 14, 2009, 5:49 pm

We’ll giver a try. It worked with the fix posted by Rich01. Thanks.

foxoo7 on Jul 14, 2009, 9:32 pm

very nice tips, i did it to my blog:
and it worked, thank you.

lawal on Jul 15, 2009, 3:11 am

I got it.You can check my site now.Thanks

widi on Jul 16, 2009, 8:39 am

i have done, and thank’s a lot for all the tips..

Noah on Jul 17, 2009, 9:25 am

it works fine for me, and it really helps, i tried searching in google search about the article i wrote and luckily i found in page 2..:)

thank you so much.. more power and more free tips to come..

diselle on Jul 19, 2009, 7:01 pm

it didn’t work on my blog..im using a passion duo template and i keep on getting xml error..any help?

siddu075 on Jul 22, 2009, 4:47 am

it worked fine for me thanks rich01

Wolfgang Carter on Jul 22, 2009, 9:50 pm

Thanks for the fantastic tip. Very helpful.

gorjiz on Jul 23, 2009, 8:37 am

nice to try it…! thanks a lot for tips 😀

wiratama on Jul 24, 2009, 1:02 am

hai david…..Thanks for the tip…Its really amazing…i can’t wait for the results.once again thank’s alot

chao on Jul 24, 2009, 7:30 am

it’s an old tip that one of my Chinses friend told me last year.

it’s really useful.

Thanks all the way.

Mark on Jul 27, 2009, 1:44 pm

Hello

For some reason this used to show up on my blog but now it doesnt work ?I am using one of the free blogger templates .David pls help

"Monster Man" on Jul 27, 2009, 3:56 pm

One of my blogs is getting a number of hits from search engines because of this one tip. I am really impressed. Thanks very much.

prophet666 on Jul 29, 2009, 11:07 pm

the tip about tags works
thanks

Christopher on Aug 8, 2009, 11:51 pm

Brilliant, I would never have thought of that!

Thanks 🙂

Nouman on Aug 9, 2009, 5:26 pm

Thanx a lot , a great tip…it is working fine on my Blog.BRIlliant

yos on Aug 9, 2009, 9:12 pm

thanks for your info, i will edit my template now…

regard
by yosaadi.blogspot.com

Ramel de la Cruz on Aug 11, 2009, 1:04 pm

Thank you very much. This is very helpful. I am really impressed.

vinylmaniac on Aug 12, 2009, 12:22 pm

Ok I did it but all I have back was: error bX-c169s6

and now I cannot access Blogger. All the time I tried to access my blogspot account I got this message…

Did something wrong? Help me please.

All the best

vinylmaniac on Aug 12, 2009, 1:02 pm

OK everything is fine now. Just a Blogger trouble! Thank you for the fine tip!

All the best

Finsofts Design on Aug 16, 2009, 3:00 am

A great help from you thanks a lot and this will help a number of users to find a better seo solution..

am a writer at HUBPAGES and hubpages also need some seo tips

Rara on Aug 17, 2009, 10:13 am

i can’t wait the result ! T________T

Debbi on Aug 19, 2009, 7:45 am

Thank you! I cant wait to see if this works for me!!!

Sudhir on Aug 21, 2009, 6:16 am

Excellent!! rich01’s suggestions worked very well

kav key on Aug 21, 2009, 12:18 pm

Some one told me that this is against google adsens TOS.
Is this correct.
Please clear my confusion.

preart on Aug 22, 2009, 4:28 pm

I have done this tips on my blog.
now I’ m wating for the result.
Hope it make more traffice to my site.

Thank for the tips.

pen_down on Aug 24, 2009, 3:19 pm

Thank man, I have added it. Hope it works.

Amor on Aug 26, 2009, 7:07 am

Thanks for the nice tip…

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phy on Aug 28, 2009, 2:10 am

great!! thank for the hint..

Charlie on Aug 28, 2009, 10:06 am

Hey thanks for that!

I used the 2nd option and it works like a treat!
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thank you!!

yos on Aug 28, 2009, 10:14 am

yes..i think i have already this fro my blog..
thanks alot for you EB

regards
artikel PM juga di yosaadi.blogspot.com

SABIR AHMED on Aug 29, 2009, 10:25 am

dear u can use online metatag creator just search for the keyord meta tag creator, ull find

edz on Sep 4, 2009, 5:11 am

I am using a professional template and it works fine when i put that code to my blog http://photoeditingsoftware1.blogspot.com/ for my collection of basic photo editing software.

raj on Sep 4, 2009, 11:42 pm

thx man you are genius.

adnoxious on Sep 6, 2009, 8:34 am

Great ideas– thank you!

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Omagaz on Sep 8, 2009, 7:11 am

Great post

Thanks a lot !

pixelshots on Sep 8, 2009, 10:31 am

thak you.. i have done it friend,.. increased ma search hits more now..

cu around

Videolinks4u on Sep 9, 2009, 6:02 pm

Thanks For this..Lets see what happens ?

SEO company london on Sep 11, 2009, 11:08 pm

setting a good title can help you rank better in google.

Fin on Sep 12, 2009, 8:38 am

Hello blog guru,
i tried this method but got an error msg. Shortly after, I cannot open my blog anymore. Could this problem be related to the title editing? thanx very much 🙁

Charles Rinehart on Sep 12, 2009, 11:12 am

Lots of great info here. Thank you very much.

ZAI on Sep 15, 2009, 12:19 am

I can’t even find your step2 in my HTML code.pls help

Mastan on Sep 15, 2009, 8:19 pm

Thanks for nice info…

@all who got error, pls change the code like

it works fine, check and let me know.

Mastan on Sep 15, 2009, 8:22 pm

I gave space between tags. pls remove the space.

the change needs in

cond=’data:blog.pageType == "index"’

thats it

Clint on Sep 15, 2009, 10:51 pm

Thanks Mastan. After much trial and error, I finally got it to work using your suggestion. Check out the results at my Utah Jazz Blog.

[Blocked by CFC] Abdullah on Sep 16, 2009, 12:35 am

Thnaks i addedd this code on my blog now i am waiting for the results…..!!

Abdullah on Sep 16, 2009, 12:38 am

Thanks but how this code works?? please reply me