24 Best & Important BlogSpot SEO Tips to Increase Blog Traffic

Blogger or BlogSpot is a service of Google which is totally free and very easy to use CMS system. Many blogger use this platform for starting their blogging career, but not all of them know about the basics SEO tips of BlogSpot blogs. Before checking the search engine optimization tips first you can check out the top and important SEO tools that will help you in your blog SEO. 

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Important Guide of 24 Best BlogSpot SEO Tips For Bloggers

BlogSpot SEO Tips #1 – Choose Your Topic / Niche Carefully

Whenever you want to writing a blog or want to create a blog on blogger or WordPress or any other platform then first thing you do to choose the blog topic / niche. Not create a blog on multi-niche blog like if you want to create a blog and writing on blogging ,SEO, free templates, plugins, software’s, such like stuffs then it is very difficult to manage this and the major drawback is the SEO support. So always choose your blog topic carefully and create a blog on micro-niche topic. Like SEO is a unique topic, blogging, technology , food, health etc. You can check our guide how to choose a profitable blog topic / niche market idea.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #2 – Include Primary Keyword in Domain Name

Domain name is the brand name of your blog or business. Whether you use free blogspot subdomain (myblog.blogspot.com) or use custom domain (mydomain.com) always include your primary keyword in the domain. Like if you want to start a blog on blogging tips, then add the keyword “Blogging” in the domain, it will helps you to increase the visibility and your posts will be appears on SERP. But I recommended you to choose a custom domain in blogger platform, it is best for you in future.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #3 – Clean & Simple Blogger Template

When you choose a domain name for your blog then choose the best blogger template which is clean and simple. It also user-friendly and mobile friendly too. Because more than 70% traffic comes from mobile phones now a days. So it is important for us to choose responsive blogger template. Make your theme clean and simple as much as you can. Don’t use widgets in sidebar, footer, header which slow down your page loading time speed and your ranking will be drop instantly.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #4 – Contents ( Content is King )

Contents is the king in blogging. As much your blog content useful for readers as much you can taken traffic from search engine. Always write for your readers not for search engine. Don’t copy / paste contents from any other site, because Google and all other search engine does not allow this.

Guide of 6 Killer Tips To Write a Posts That Attracts Targeted Traffic

Write unique, fresh and valuable contents that your reader loves it and share it. Content is the main thing in blogging whether you’ve a BlogSpot blog or WordPress.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #5 – SEO Optimize Post Title

Post title plays an important role in Search engine optimization. In search results, your blog post title will appear as heading so always choose and write a dashing and killer post title that attracts your visitors. As much optimize your title that anyone see, they click on it. If you use default blogger template or any other third part template, many of these use the blog’s title first displayed in search result and your post title display after the blog title. So you can change it via HTML coding. Just go to your blogger blog and go to “Edit HTML” place and find this tag and replace it with the below code.

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

BlogSpot SEO Tips #6 – Typography

Typography is also a very important thing in BlogSpot blogs and it affects your blog ranking too. Always choose the simple and user-friendly and eye attracting font style which is look like awesome and readability is good. Many typography are not good and their writing experience also very bad and people doesn’t want to read such type of blogs. So keep in mind always choose awesome typograhpy fonts style which attracts your readers.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #7 – Use Labels in Blogspot

Labels are some kind of keywords which tells what kind of post and on which topic it cover. Like if you write about technology then use tags and labels with the name of “Tech” or “Technology“. Labels also helps you to drive more traffic from search engine. You can also optimize your blog labels via HTML coding. Just go to “EDIT HTML” editor and find this tag :

<a expr:href=’data:label.url’

and replace this tag with this tag below.

<a expr:href=’data:label.url’ rel=’tag’

Simply save template and that’s it. Now all blogger templates are fully optimized for labels point of view, but if you use default blogger template or any other check this too.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #8 – Custom Robots Header Tags

In blogger, they provide you this option to use custom header tags for each posts. But by default this option is disable. So first of all you can enable it and then use it. Google add this feature in blogspot blogs and make their blogs more SEO friendly. So you can also use it. If you doesn’t know how to enable it and use it then check this guide :

How To Enable and Use Meta Header Tags in Blogger

BlogSpot SEO Tips #9 – Use Headings (H1, H2, H3)

Headings also play an important role in SEO and your blog posts ranking. For completely optimizing your posts, this is the basic and important factor. When you write a post about any topic and targeted a keyword, then use same targeted keywords in H1 (Heading1) and then inside your post in H2 (Heading2) and H3(Heading3). So in this way, your post will be optimize in headings point of view. It will help you to increase your blog traffic from search engines.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #10 – Image Optimization

“I don’t trust words. I trust actions”

Without images your post will not be ranked in search engine. At least use one or two images inside your posts. Don’t simply use them, fully optimize them for getting full benefits. You may notice many times on different places of many irrelevant images which is not properly optimize. Images not only enhance your content looks but it also a very important factor in blog posts optimization. Always use Free Stocks Images and resize all and then use. Also use meta alt tag and meta title description inside images that helps for search engine to know image is what about. If you do it properly and wisely then you grasp extra traffic from Search engines.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #11 – Keyword Research

Keyword research is the biggest factor in blogging to create quality contents. You may also spent as much time as you can on keyword research. There are many keyword research tools are available in market which you utilize but I recommended you to use Google Keyword Planner Tool and getting profitable ideas from them. Every time you write a new posts, first research your keywords using these tools and then write on that keyword and target it inside your post, images, description, title, URL etc. Here is the complete guide to use Google Keyword Tool.

Guide How To Use Google Keyword Planner Tool

BlogSpot SEO Tips #12 – Optimize your Post Web Address (Post URL)

SEO Optimized Blog Post Permalinks / URL / Web Address

Like post title, web address or post URL also very important. Always optimize your web address and include your primary keyword in it which helps you to rank higher in search engine and getting extra traffic. In BlogSpot blogs, two options available in right sidebar, where you can easily change your web address or web URL according to your topic before publishing posts. Whenever you published your post, you cannot change it further in blogger.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #13 – Labels, Tags and Related Posts

As you seen on many times on different blogs, at the end of the post, you can seen the tags ,labels and related posts about that posts which is very beneficial in search engine optimization. You can also use them all of these things in your blogger template and grab out the visitors. In blogger, labels can affects the related posts widget, because blogger related posts widget only display related posts relating to that particular label.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #14 – Optimizing Blog Archives

In BlogSpot blogs, this is also a problem. Archive pages also creates problems for search engine robots. In default blogger templates this problem exists, but now a days blogger templates are fully optimized for blog archives. But if you want to get rid of this problem then simply go to your blog “Edit HTML” page and find this tag.

<a class=’post-count-link’ expr:href=’data:i.url’>

and replace this tag with the code below.

<a rel=”archives” class=’post-count-link’ expr:href=’data:i.url’>

So in this way this problem solve and blog archives are fully optimized. But if you doesn’t find this line of code, then don’t worry, your template already optimized.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #15 – Maintain Keyword Density in Article

When you write an article, then many newbie bloggers overestimate the keyword density which search engine not allowed. So there posts never ranked in SERP, and they give up because they doesn’t receive any type of organic traffic. But if you optimized your posts, and maintain the keyword density in an article, then you will getting the good number of visitors from search engines. Generally 2% to 3% keyword density allow every search engine means in 500 words article, you can use up to 15 targeted keywords.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #16 – Add Nofollow External Links

Nofollow is a HTML arrtibute which specified the hyperlinks to block search engine advantage to external links. In blogger, by default all internal and external links are dofollow, which might be a problem for link juice of your site. When you add any external link in your article, add rel=”nofollow” attribute just after the URL to stop search engine from crawlinkg this particular link. It is very important so don’t underestimate it.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #17 – Add Custom Robots.txt File

Robots.txt file is a advanced option in blogger which might be helpful for your blogs. This is a just a simple text file which is adding to your root directory to telling to search engine for what kind of pages indexed and what kind of not. But remember, if you can’t use it correctly it will destroy your blog ranking. So you can easily add robots.txt file into your blogspot blog by going into your setting option and simply copy below file and adding there.

User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search?q=*
Disallow: /*?updated-max=*
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://www.techora.net/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated

Click on save button and save changes your blog. If you not know how to add custom robots.txt file in blogger blog, then here is the solution for you.

Guide of How to Add SEO Friendly Custom Robots.txt File in Blogger

BlogSpot SEO Tips #19 – Social Bookmarking Widgets

Always adding a social bookmarking sharing buttons into your blogger template which allow your readers to share your posts with their profiles. There are thousands of social bookmarking websites are available which you can use but the most popular used social websites are Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest and Instagram.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #20 – Blog Loading Time

Blog loading time is the very biggest factor in Search engine optimization now a days especially for mobile users. Because most of your visitors are mobile users, so if is important for you to increase your page loading time. It contains many factors which you utilize and enhance your blog laod time. Check our guide about enhancing your page load time.

Guide of How to Increase blog loading time Easily

BlogSpot SEO Tips #21 – Internal Links of Your Web Pages

Internal linking also very beneficial for your blog ranking in search engine. When you write an article, then at least two or three internal links also add with proper planning and wisely. As smartly you adding your internal links your blog ranking will increase instantly. Because when search engine crawling your page, they crawl that page but they also crawling the internal links because they know the complete web page also available behind this internal links. So I recommended you to always links your internal pages of your blog.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #22 – Optimize Blogger Comments

As I mention above in BlogSpot blogs all internal and external links are dofollow. Same like in comments, which users adding their URL’s links with the comments and if these are dofollow then search engine crawling this which is harmful for your link juice and online visibility in search engine. Comments are very useful things which is used to interacting with your readers. For optimizing your BlogSpot comments simply add this HTML attribute “nofollow” which means search engine no follow these links. You can simply do this by going to your “Edit HTML” area and find this below tag.

expr:href=’data:post.createLinkUrl’

and replace this with the below line of code.

rel=’external nofollow’ expr:href=’data:post.createLinkUrl’

Now save your template and that’s all about comments optimization.

BlogSpot SEO Tips #23 – Use Bold, italic, and Underline attributes

In an post editor of BlogSpot blogs, you will see the three links which is just like ” B , i , U ” which means bold , italic and underline. Search engine tells to webmasters always use these attributes in your article and target your primary keyword. Bold your primary keyword and then italic that keyword and also underlined too. This is also very beneficial in search engine results pages (SERP).

BlogSpot SEO Tips #24 – Optimize Your Media (Images, Video, Infographics )

The last tip for bloggers is that, always use media inside your post and enhance your post attraction with your users. Like always adding at least one or two images inside your post . If possible then also adding a video tutorial with every post which helps you to getting more traffic from search engine . Info-graphics also a very useful media which attract users to understanding anything and share with their own friends own social media sites. So always optimize these media and then upload and adding to your blog posts.

So these are the 24 best and important BlogSpot SEO tips for bloggers to increase your blog traffic. These tips are my own experienced and many other professionals also recommended these tips to user for better ranking in search engine result pages (SERP’s). These are not complete list because there are many other minor or major Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Tips but these are the basic and very important for all bloggers so you implement all these and increase your blog traffic.

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Aamir Saleem Ansari