How to Optimize Post title for better SEO

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Hello Readers, I have been writing on this blog for almost 2 months now and i have shared many useful articles about SEO and Blogging tips. This article focuses on SEO with the help of a little trick with your Post titles. We all know how important SEO is for your Blog and websites. SEO or Search Engine Optimization allows your blog/websites to be discovered by the search Engines and then they are included into the search results. Better SEO will take you to the first page of the search results and hence you will have more chances to get be clicked, that means Better SEO rewards you with free search or organic traffic which is very important.

This post focuses on SEO for Google Bloggers. We all know blogger users do not have plug-ins and tools for SEO like Wordpress users have and they have to do all the SEO work manually. In this post i will tell how to optimize your blog post title so that it could be easily discovered by the Search engines. If you have a little knowledge of HTML/XML it will be pretty simple task for you. Now let’s take a look at the steps you need to follow:

Steps to Optimize Post titles for Blogger

1) First of all take a back up of your template, so that you don't mess anything.
If you don't know how to take back up, don't worry Go to you Blogger dashboard, then 
click on template. In the upper-right corner of the window, click on Backup/Restore. 
Then click on download full template in the pop-up window.

2) Now that you have taken back up, you are ready to do a little edition in your template. 
Click on Template and then edit template from the dashboard. In the template editor check
 the Expand widgets checkbox (This option is already checked in new Template editor).

3) Now find the following piece of code: 

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

4) Replace this code with the following code:

<b:if cond= 'data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>

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

<b:else/>

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

</b:if> 

5) As a result of this your posts title will appear first than your Blog name like this:

This is not an immediate process. This result will persist when Google bot crawls your Blog next time. It may take a few days depending upon the crawl rate of your Blog. Don't worry it takes lesser than a month for the blogs which are updated regularly and you will find your Blog among the search results and clicked more often.

You should see 10 Killer SEO tips for Bloggers and other SEO and Blogging tips on my Blog.

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Author: Mohammad Zafar Ahmad

Zafar Ahmad is PHP/Java Developer and a Passionate Blogger. He likes to write about Blogging tips, SEO tips, Blogger Widgets, Smart phones, Tablets and Online Earnings. You can find him on Facebook, Twitter or Google+