Swapping Blogger blog title and post title -Blogger SEO tweak
In the previous post about Blogger title tweak, I’ve mentioned about the other way of optimizing blog title structure,swapping blog title name with post title name.
As said earlier,default blogger.com blogs title structure is “Blog Title followed by post title” for individual posts,now let’s see how to change this structure to “Post title followed by blog title” (swapping).
1.Go to Dashboard>>Select your Blog>>go to Layout Section>>Click Edit HTML tab
Find the little HTML section code shown by the red arrow in the following image your template HTML code
Where you’ll find the following title tag.
<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title> [Note:You may also use CTR+F function in your browser to search this little code.]
3.Replace the above code with this one:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>[note that this will still show your blog title at home page,only changes individual posts structre]
4.Save the Template and open any post from your blog and observe the title structure on the top of your browser it must now look like “blog post title | blog title”
Like wise,Wordpress blogs titles also can be tweaked for better Search Engine Optimization,soon be posted here.
Please feel free to leave a comment here if you are having any troubles while doing this.
September 1st, 2009 at 10:07 pm
not working in my blog.. can u help.. it done as u said.. it was working long before.. now its showing blog title only in browser bar..i have aded favicon later.. is tat the problem??
September 7th, 2009 at 9:13 am
sorry frnd..it was ma mistake. your snippet of code works.. was some troble with ma html before.. now solved.
September 7th, 2009 at 9:18 am
@Pixelshots
Hmm..I was wondering what’s wrong with code…as you said code will work because it has been checked before posting here
March 15th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Nice work man. One questions though. Wouldn’t it be better to leave out the <data:blog.title/> for better SEO results? My blog title is very big. What do you think?
March 15th, 2010 at 10:55 pm
@ Carlos
If your blog title is too big, it’ll be of no use if you want to keep it at the end of the post page title, so I advice you to remove it and also refer to this post
http://www.techrena.net/blogger-tips/blogger-blog-title-tweak-seo/
March 16th, 2010 at 9:23 am
Thanks man…. you rule
April 14th, 2010 at 5:00 pm
This is my title tag but how don’t know how to change it accordingly to your post bearing I want to keep my google description
<b:include data=’blog’ name=’all-head-content’/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/> – Diari di viaggio, foto, news e informazioni pratiche per un viaggio RTW</title>
<META CONTENT=’Il blog dei viaggiatori indipendenti RTW. Guida e notizie utili per backpacking attorno al mondo. Diari di viaggio su Asia, Australia, Nuova Zelanda e USA ma non solo.’ NAME=’Description’/>
any clues?
cheers
April 14th, 2010 at 5:06 pm
@marta
Replace
<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title>
line with the code given above.
Please do not touch “<META CONTENT=……” part.
April 14th, 2010 at 7:44 pm
u r a star!thanks for the quick reply too. u made my day, i was going a bit crazy with this one
April 14th, 2010 at 7:49 pm
sorry, still me. i am trying to change that also for my other blog (www.atravelaroundtheworld.com) but it doesn’t seem to work.
this is the code
<meta content=’MEHw-K8bxOc0-NpWutKj4E8BhlX5MCAGdT2bU-0GhLc’ name=’google-site-verification’/>
<meta content=’VNznrwgw9B/yUg9G0JpBkollLJOaqqnfPBfgMUz54s8=’ name=’verify-v1′/>
<b:include data=’blog’ name=’all-head-content’/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/> – RTW Backpacking Travel Blog</title>
<META CONTENT=’Traveling Around the World. Travel tales, tips of a 30-something adventure couple backpacking on a budget a year-long around the world. An independent RTW blog.’ NAME=’Description’/>
<b:skin><
Want to confirm it
May 14th, 2010 at 4:08 pm
i host 5 of my blogs on Blogspot and it is really good for beginners. but if you want something with more features, nothing beats wordpress”;~
May 15th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
Will this affect all my past posts and inherently all links that come to those posts?
What is the benefit of having post title first?
Thanks!
May 15th, 2010 at 6:31 pm
@Constantin,
None of the links will be changed. Only the display style of all title of your post will be changed with the post title coming first than the blog title.
The benefit is that search engines will index your post title first and hence will lead to more keywords. Its and SEO for blogger users.
May 22nd, 2010 at 4:23 am
Thank you so very much for this!
July 14th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Thanks a lot, I hope it will increase my traffic. I’ve already seen the change in the web browser window, but not yet in the google results (i think it’s normal). I just want to specify, in the html section code, the code to change was in the beginning, so no need to spend a lot of time to find it…
July 24th, 2010 at 5:29 pm
Wow thanks a lot. I’ve been meaning to do this for quite some time now. I cringe every time I see my blog in google search because my blog name (Orchestroscopy) always ruins the topic title being searched. Thanks for the tweak!