How to Add Blogger Blog to Google Webmasters Tools

Google has integrated Webmaster tools for Blogger / Blogspot Blogs since long time but still newbies face problem getting verified and submitting Blogger sitemap to Webmasters tools.

Follow the simple steps to add blogger blog to Webmaster Tools. Adding your site to google webmaster tools increases your blog’s visibility in search engines which means more traffic.

Add and Verify Blogger Blog to Webmasters Tools

• Login to Blogger Dashboard.
• At the end of the page, under Tools and Resources box – Click on Webmaster Tools.
• If asked, enter username and password again to Login.
• Your Blogspot blog is now verified and it is added to Google Webmaster tools.

Submit Blogger Blog Sitemap to Webmasters Tools

Sitemap is basically page containing Article URLs of your blog alongwith metadata. It is updated whenever you post an article and used by Search engines to crawl Blog data. Not only Google but also use by other search engines like Yahoo, Bing,etc.

• Inside Webmaster tools, click on Submit a Sitemap and add the following code inside the box :

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=100

•  If you have more than 200 posts then replace value 100 by something bigger number like 500.

• You have successfully added Blogspot blog sitemap to Google Webmasters Tools.

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Best SEO Tools for Blogger – Search Engine Optimization for Blogs

After setting up a Blog every Blogger looks for SEO tools on the internet. The search engine provides many SEO tools for use. Sometimes blog owners confuse from the huge number of SEO tools on the internet. The tools on the first page of search engine used by many users. For good search engine optimization you have to use good SEO tools for your blog. Every blogger wants his blog in the top ten search results of search engine.

For this achievement you have to use good SEO tools in your blog. Below you can find the list of top SEO tools used by the professional. You can use these tools easily especially if you are using Blogger.
Multirank Checker
You can calculate the Page rank of your Blog. Also you can check other blog Page rank easily. Just enter the domain name of the blog.
Google Analytics
This is a free SEO tools provided by Google. Also you can use this tool to get reports and details related to you blogs. You can check the traffic coming to your Blog.

Back Link Checker
This is the most used SEO tool around web by web masters. Its free to use. You can check the backlinks and analyze backlinks with the help of this SEO tool.
Google Adwords
One of the best Keyword Tool available for free on the internet by Google. This provide many features related to keywords. You can use it for free to find your keyword related to your niche.
Seomoz
Using this tool you can calculate the ranking of your Blog and also of other’s Blog. It is recommended by many Blog owners.

How To Add SEO Friendly Custom Permalinks for Blogger Posts

Blogger has introduced another new and very useful feature – custom permalinks for blogger posts. Now you can use SEO friendly custom URL for blogger posts. Also most importantly there is not 39 character limit further with this blogger custom permalinks.

To create your own URL for a specific post, simply click “permalink” and select “Custom URL“, and enter your customURL in the field given. If you wrote the post in July of 2012, your new URL will look like this:

http://YOURBLOG.blogspot.com/2012/07/customURL.html

The red colored bolded area is the portion of the URL that is customizable.
If the custom permalink you entered already exists, Blogger will attempt find a free one for you.
At present, the characters allowed in a custom URL are limited to: a-z, A-Z, 0-1. The only special characters available are underscore, dash, and period.




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How To SEO Optimize Your Blogger Blog Titles For Higher Search Results

This is called “Blogger/blogspot Title Swapping”.This will give your blog better search engine rankings. It is always good to have your main keywords(Post title) of a specific blog post at the start rather than placing your blog title at the start. This situation becomes very bad if your blog title is very long.

• As usual,Login To Blogger Go To > Design > Edit HTML.
• and mark the tick box “Expand Widget Templates“
• Then, find (CTRL+F) this code in the template.

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

• Now, replace that line with these:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> |<data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> </b:if>

• Now click save the Template and you are done.

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How to add Meta Keywords to a particular blogger post

Well now with this step you can easily add  keywords to your blogger post but with this method you need to add many code for every single post. So its not recommended fro every post but for some certain posts if you think seriously needs to have keywords and description than you can use this method.

Well we will using the same meta tags used to optimize default blogs homepage but by using some conditional tags you can optimize separate posts.

• Open Blogger > Template > Edit HTML
• Now if you already have meta tags added for your blog than right below those meta tags add these conditional meta tags.

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == &quot;http://Post-URL-Here&quot;'>
<meta content='Keywords Here' name='keywords'/>
</b:if>

• Now you need to replace the Post URL with your blog post on which you want to use these meta  keywords, and change keywords too.
• That’s it now if you have more just add the same code below it and change the post URL, now your posts will be optimized with keywords.

Source: makingdifferent