Tips for Optimizing you blog at Blogger - 1

I just found a post from Lifehacker.com regarding Best Blogging Platform


Most of the user recommended wordpress and then comes blogger. This post is for those who have already started their blog at blogger and wanted to use it in future also. As I am trying to experiment with the factor on which Google gives rankings. in this case I am trying to get a rank for the keyword Hokoboroho roruportu (confuses?? see my post hokoboroho roruportu. what?? Why??)

I have done some research how to optimize a blogger account. Hope this will help you out.

Problem 1:
Blog meta data:
Solution
1. Sign in to your blogger dashboard click the 'design' button then go to 'edit HTML'





2. Search for



and now add your description, keywords, Your name as per your requirement





if you want to have customized titles for your most important post  then use this

Sign in to Blogger dashboard » Layout » Edit html

and find this line




 
 and add this code just below that line

So, the final code looks like this one

Now, what you have to do is pasting the above three lines below the present code and changing the link,description and keywords.
So, the final code now looks something like
 












Just like the above procedure, you can add different meta tags to as many blog posts as you can.

Try it out and share your experiences!

Source:http://www.bloggertricks.com/2008/08/how-to-add-different-meta-tags-to.html

Using the pageName Variable Instead of pageTitle for SEO

 If you want to optimize each of your blog pages for the search engines (thereby bringing more traffic to your blog), you can change this tag so that the keywords displayed in the title tag for each of your pages aren’t watered down.

To understand what I’m talking about, I’ll provide an example.  Consider a political blogger who named her blog “Democracy No More”.  One of her recent blog entries might be entitled “Problems with the Housing Bailout”.  Using the default data:blog.pageTitle tag to create  Problems with the Housing Bailout”.  The title tag for this post is diluted for the keyword terms related specifically to this post (housing bailing, housing bailout problems).  Instead, the general title of the blog itself (“Democracy No More”) should be removed from the page title for this entry.

  

 Source:http://websitetemplatedatabase.com/blogging/30-blogger-page-name-page-title




Problem 2:
Post meta data : The 1st thing I want is to have my keywords at the title of the posts. I want to have my customized title. By default blogger takes the post heading as the title of the page.
Solution
1. you can make headings of the post with your keywords

Problem 3:
URL Structure:
Solution:

Problem 4:
Archived URLs: Want to block pages like 2010_05_01_archive.html
Solution:

Apply the following meta tag

Valid meta robots content values
Googlebot interprets the following robots meta tag values:

• NOINDEX - prevents the page from being included in the index.
  
• NOFOLLOW - prevents Googlebot from following any links on the page. (Note that this is different from the link-level NOFOLLOW attribute, which prevents Googlebot from following an individual link.)
  
• NOARCHIVE - prevents a cached copy of this page from being available in the search results.
  
• NOSNIPPET - prevents a description from appearing below the page in the search results, as well as prevents caching of the page.
  
• NOODP - blocks the Open Directory Project description of the page from being used in the description that appears below the page in the search results.
• NONE - equivalent to "NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW".

Problem 5:
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