How to Improve SEO for Your Blog - Customize Title Tags

If you are the new to blog like me, you are frustrated that not many people visit your blog even after you submit your sitemap to Google.

Here are few tips you can increase SEO (Search Engine Optimization) for your blog.



Google looks at your title of the post.



1. Download the existing XML template and make a copy in your PC.



2. Open the copy of XML and search the below code.




3. Replace the above entire code to the below and upload the XML into your Blogger.



So what have been changed?

1. The old code only shows your blog title. Vs. The new code shows the additional description.

[OLD]

[NEW]

2. Even if Google does not look at meta tags such as description and keywords, some other search engines may look at those.

The old code does not have meta tags. Vs. The new code does.



[OLD]

[NEW]

3. The old code shows the blog title and the post title. Vs. The new code shows the post title first.



[OLD]

[NEW]

Submit Your Blogger/FeedBurner Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

Submitting a Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools provides Google about your site and posts. However I recently found the article "How do I create a Sitemap file?" from Google Webmaster Help Center that You don't need to submit your Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools if you use a Blogger.

Even though the article says so, I decided to submit my Sitemap to Google becasue I am not 100% sure how it works and it does not cost or hurt me even if I submit it.















Here's how!



1. If you do not have Google Webmaster Tools account, you can register by visiting Google Webmaster Tools.

2. If you do not use a redirected custom feed such as FeedBurner, type "atom.xml" and click "Add General Web Sitemap" button.

3. If you do use a redirected custome feed such as FeedBurner, type "atom.xml?redirect=false".

Otherwise you will see "URL not allowed" error because the sitemap you have submitted to Google Webmaster Tools is actually redirecting to the FeedBurner feed URL not your site URL. And your Sitemap contains a URL that is not allowed based on the Sitemap's location.

Sitemap with errors and Sitemap without errors

Updated on 7/14/2008

How to submit more than 100 posts to Google Sitemap



ArpitNext has commented out - Thanks ArpitNext - that Google Sitemap refers the latest 25 posts from Blogger which I am not sure the exact number.

However there is a still way to submit your all of your posts.



If you have more than 100 posts and want to post all to Google Sitemap, add the below:

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

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100

If you have more than 200 posts and want to post all to Google Sitemap, add the below:

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

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100

If you have more than 300 posts and want to post all to Google Sitemap, add the below:

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

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=101&max-results=100

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=201&max-results=100

atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=301&max-results=100

As you can see the above, start-index is the post number to start returning results from and max-results is the how many posts you want returned from whatever the number you state on start-index. The maximum max-results is 500 (from many blogger) but to be safe, it is recommended to put 100.

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