SEO BlogSpot or Blogger SEO, many bloggers think that Blogger site cannot rank on the first page of Google for that reason mostly blogger users search every time that how to do blogger SEO. Mostly SEO bloggers describe SEO in a way where it looks like a supernatural thing, I am a blogger user and doing my blog on blogger from many years, I have found that you can do this using some simple and correct way. These methods will help you to rank your blog on the first page of Google Search.
Following image is showing my blog ranking on google search console a few days ago.
Many Bloggers prefer WordPress and more than 68% of the internet is based on the WordPress platform because of the following reasons.
- For the purpose of SEO, it is very flexible and it is considered very SEO friendly.
- It has a lot of SEO Plugins like Yoast.
But we can get a high rank of our blog based on Blogger by doing the following SEO tricks.
Blog Niche And BlogSpot SEO
Because blogger is free and allows you to create 100 blogs under one Gmail account, and each blog can have 1000 blog posts.
So do not be afraid to create multiple blogs.
For example,
For the 2nd Step.
For example,
- You want to create a blog on health,
- To teach about the eye, kidney, heart, skin etc.
- do not create one single blog.
- create separate blogs for each subcategory.
Keyword Implement for BlogSpot SEO
You can choose a set of most popular keywords, those are most relevant to your main blog topic by using any keyword tool.
For example,
- many people use Google Adwords keyword planner and uber suggest these are free keyword tools and they have a lot of keyword related features in them.
- and many others are using SEMrush and SERPstat these Professional SEO and SEM tools have built-in keyword planner feature.
- You can use any other tool of your choice to find more relevant keywords.
After choosing a set of most relevant keywords put them on following locations like the way which is mentioned below.
First of all,
- Go to the side menu of
- click on settings
- it will automatically show Basic settings.
Basic setting page is shown in the below image, do the process mentioned under the image
Include Keywords in In Blog Title
- Create a blog title which is 36 to 60 characters long.
- Include keywords in your blog title.
Include Keywords In You Blog Sub Domain.
Pick five top most relevant keywords and include them into your blog's subdomain. in the following format.
keyword1-keyword2-keyword3-keyword4-keyword5.blogspot.com
Include Keywords Into Blog Description.
Create two or three sentences about your blog and add these keywords into these sentences.
Turn On HTTPS Protocol
I have also noticed an increase in ranking when I turned on HTTPs
so turn on this feature of your blogger site.
Turn on HTTPS redirects it will make possible the visitors of HTTP:// to https://
For the 2nd Step.
- Go to side menu of your blogger dashboard.
- Click on settings and an expanded menu will appear, click on Search Preferences.
This page is about settings up some more advanced SEO elements of blogger.
You can simply copy and paste the text of basic settings description.
With the default option visitor of deleted or removed page will land to an empty page.
Setting Up Meta Tags Description
This is the description which will appear under blog title and URL in search results.You can simply copy and paste the text of basic settings description.
- click on edit and you will get expanded options.
- click 'yes' to enable it.
- enter your text and click save, but remember any text you have enter here must contain related information and relevant keywords.
Custom Page Not Found Error Page.
With the default option visitor of deleted or removed page will land to an empty page.
When you apply custom error script it will generate and custom page and as well as automatically redirect to the main blog URL.
Visit the following page to get the script for custom page not found an error.
Copy and paste the Script given on this page and click save.
Create Custom Robots.txt File For BlogSpot SEO.
By default search engine's crawlers are restricted to scan search pages of your blog, it is an error for a search engine.
remove this restriction to allow the search engine to scan all blog pages.
Enter,
you-blog-name.blogspot.com or your-blog-name.com
in the address bar.
A page with the following text will appear.
- Hower the mouse on the all text on that page and copy all text.
- paste the text on the custom robot.txt section.
- then select the line which is pointed with an arrow and remove it and save.
It will correct the robot.txt file error, and allow the search engine to scan all your blog posts and pages.
Custom Robots Header Tags Setting.
This section is to allow or disallow search engine to index some of your blogs.
click on edit and enable it.
it will expand with the different option shown in the below image.
Go to the second option on the expanded page.
Archive and search pages.
click and engage al options under it to restrict robots or search engine crawlers to scan archive and search pages.
click save to save modified settings.
You have done the SEO of your main blog.
SEO Of Blog Post in BlogSpot.
blog post SEO of Blogspot or blogger is not difficult, you can do it easily.
just focus on the following things,
- Keyword research.
- Blog post title.
- the first paragraph of your blog post.
- Blog post Permalink
- Search description of your blog post.
- ALT text of your blog post images.
- blog post heading and subheadings.
SEO For Post Title In BlogSpot.
After doing keywords research for a new blog post the first thing you need to do is the creation of title for your new blog post.
- Create a 36 to 60 characters long sentence for your blog post title.
- include your main keyword in the blog post title.
- Create eye-catching and attention-grabbing sentences for
- better click-through rate (CTR).
In my case, I use a free title generation tool to get ideas for unique and amazing blog post titles.
following is the link of free blog post title generator (only email address required for unlimited title ideas.)
SEO Of The First Paragraph of BlogSpot.
During the keywords research, you have found many
single keywords and many key phrases use all of them and create a good size paragraph and include all your keywords and key phrases in it.
Blog Post Heading SEO In BlogSpot
Headings make an article easy to understand. These headings are very important for SEO.
You can notice the Pattern of headings in this article, these headings contain keywords in them.
include your keywords in these headings.
Blog Post Image SEO In BlogSpot.
Must create and add a banner image to the blogger blog post.
good image size is 560-pixels wide and 315-pixel high image.
after adding the image click on the image a horizontal options line will appear.
find and click to open on properties.
add the same title as your blog post have and then underneath it, you will find ALT text now in the box enter all your keywords you have to choose for the blog post. and save it.
it will make possible to appear the particular blog post image rank under your focused keywords in image search.
Custom Permalink For BlogSpot SEO.
In your blog post link you get the blog URL at first position and then date stamp and after the date stamp, you get your blog post permalink.
blogger or Blogspot automatically generate permalink and take the blog post title as the permalink.
keep our permalink short and limit it to maximum 3 single keywords. For example,
/keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.html
but if you do not get the search description to turn on the meta tags description from settings and search preference.
and also if you already publish the post then you will not get the search description editing option. click divert to save in front of update post and you will get it.
now create 322 characters long paragraph for description and include your keywords in it.
blogger or Blogspot automatically generate permalink and take the blog post title as the permalink.
keep our permalink short and limit it to maximum 3 single keywords. For example,
/keyword1-keyword2-keyword3.html
Search Description Of Blog Post in BlogSpot
Location of search description is underneath the permalink option.but if you do not get the search description to turn on the meta tags description from settings and search preference.
and also if you already publish the post then you will not get the search description editing option. click divert to save in front of update post and you will get it.
now create 322 characters long paragraph for description and include your keywords in it.
Favicon and Blogger header Image in BlogSpot.
Favicon and blog header image provide your blog a professional look as well as they improve the SEO of your blog.Favicon for BlogSpot
Create a square image which symbolizes your main blog topic or niche.
resize it to as smallest as you can for example, 16x 16 or 32 x 32.
sometimes it takes little time to appear in the browser's tab.
resize it to as smallest as you can for example, 16x 16 or 32 x 32.
- Go to Layout in left side menu on blogger dashboard.
- find the location shown in the above image.
- click edit to add a favicon.
- click on choose file and add the image that you have prepared for the favicon. and click save.
sometimes it takes little time to appear in the browser's tab.
Blogger Header Image in BlogSpot.
Go to the Layout tab in the side menu of blogger dashboard.
locate the area shown in above mention image.
click on edit a new box will appear.
here choose an image for the header image. and click save.
Remember before saving the image below the choose file option locate and click on 'instead of title and description'
you have all done.