Increase Blog Traffic by Optimizing your Blog Title

This simple SEO trick can increase traffic to your blog. After publishing your new post , you might search it by using google to see whether it was indexed. If you notice the search reults, you will see the Title of the result will be look like this:

Blog Title + Post Title

However, this type of title wont attract searchers, because you blog title appears in front of Post Title. When Crawler visits your blog, the blog title will be consider as keyword although it doesn't relate with your blog title. So, it is not SEO friendly.


Here is a hack that will change the title to the following attractive format

Post Title + Blog Title

STEP 1
Goto Template>Edit Html and find the following code

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

STEP 2
Replace the step 1 code with the code below


<!-- Start Simple Tricks: Changing the Blogger Title Tag -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<b:section id='swaptitle'>
<b:widget id='Blog2' locked='false' title='Blog Posts' type='Blog'>
<b:includable id='nextprev'/>
<b:includable id='backlinks' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='post' var='post'>
<title>
<data:post.title/> - <data:blog.title/>
</title>
</b:includable>
<b:includable id='commentDeleteIcon' var='comment'/>
<b:includable id='status-message'/>
<b:includable id='feedLinks'/>
<b:includable id='backlinkDeleteIcon' var='backlink'/>
<b:includable id='feedLinksBody' var='links'/>
<b:includable id='postQuickEdit' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='comments' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='main' var='top'>
<b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'>
<b:include data='post' name='post'/>
</b:loop>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>
<!-- End Simple Tricks: Changing the Blogger Title Tag -->