Blogger How 4 - SEO Techniques For Your Blogger

Blogger How is Blogger Tutorial Series from How We Blog. In this series, I will guide you step by step building your first blog with Blogger, spread it to the world, and then you can earn money from it.

Part 4 of this series:

Blogger How 4 - SEO Techniques For Your Blogger

This post contains the most important and basic SEO Techniques that you need to apply to your blog. It mainly talk about how to optimize your blog and your posts, what needed to set any blog viral on all major search engines. That's about how to setting mega tag, about content optimization,... and yes, about everything you can do with your blog. The goal is to get as much as visitors from search engine possible.
Please be patient until BH6 is published, more SEO tactics with social network will be revealed.

1. Setting for a SEO-friendly Blog

1.1 Basic Settings:

At Blogger Dashboard, click on your blog name, then click Settings at left sidebar. And then you can edit your Title and Description. Make sure it's relevant and included your core keyword. Check "Yes" at both questions Add your blog to our listing? and Let search engines find your blog? Don't forget to click Save changes.

Basic Setting for SEO

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Blogger How 3 - Change, Backup and Customize Template

Blogger How is Blogger Tutorial Series from How We Blog. In this series, I will guide you step by step building your first blog with Blogger, spread it to the world, and then you can earn money from it.
Part 3 of this series:

Blogger How 3 - Change, Backup and Customize Template

If you want your blogger have a better look, this is an essential article for you. You will learn how to back up a template before change it, customize it in your way and much more. Of course everything will be very basic to understand and follow.

Find Free Blogger Templates:

Some places that you can find and download good blogger templates for free:

• Btemplates: the oldest and biggest directory of free blogger templates.
• PremiumBloggerTemplates
• NewBloggerthemes
• Sora Templates
• Ivy Themes

Templates are downloaded under .xml or .zip format. With archive format, you need to extract it and get .xml file (some templates are included images, instruction and script that you can hosted your self).

Which Template is Good for Me?

You can choose whatever template which one you like most and suit your business, just remember simple is the best. But if you're asking me what kind of template is the best then I will answer this is 2 columns template with content on the left and right sidebar.
Why? Because they are simple, users and SEO-friendly, easy for Search Engine Spider to crawl your main content first and sidebar content later. You can see, most of popular bloggers choose that kind of templates for their blog

2 Ways to Change Blogger Template

Change and Backup / Restore Blogger Template

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Blogger How 2 - Structure of a Blogger Template

Blogger How is Blogger Tutorial Series from How We Blog. In this series, I will guide you step by step building your first blog with Blogger, spread it to the world, and then you can earn money from it.

 Part 2 of this series:

Blogger How 2 - Structure of a Blogger Template

In this article, you will learn how to recognize each section of a blogger template. You will need that when edit html and arrange your widget.

Blogger Template and Its Components

Home page structure:

Look at picture below, this is basic layout for a 2 columns blogger template, every section is marked by a number.

A Blogger template layout

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Blogger How 1 - Register and Start Your First Blogger

Blogger How is Blogger Tutorial Series from How We Blog. In this series, I will guide you step by step building your first blog with Blogger, spread it to the world, and then you can earn money from it.

The first post of this series:

Blogger How 1 - Register and Start Your First Blogger

Blogger (a.k.a Blogspot) is a professional blogging platform by Google. Blogger offers many professional features to its users. With Blogger, you can fully customize template and your post. Blogger is one of the best search engine optimized platform that support by Google itself. Blogger is free, fast and stable for everyone. And that's why I write tutorial about Blogger first (and Wordpress after that).

Register Google Account and Sign In 

You need a Google Account to sign in and use Blogger at http://www.blogger.com. If you don't have one, click Sign Up button at right up corner, then choose your Gmail user name (it will be your Google Account too), fill in all the field then click Next step to finish the registering.

Register a Google Account

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