Title on blog just like visitor interest . Good title attract more visitors and it is significant part of SEO. To gain more traffic your title should have attractive keywords, should not be too long and important words should come first (keyword prominence).
In this article you will find free guide how to increase blog traffic with title change of each page of your blogger explained step by step. With title change explained in this article my blog have visit growth more than 40%. Let's talk about how blogspot post titles are generated. In blogger post blog title come first followed by post title.
Example 1:[Blog title]: [Post title]
Useful and interesting web sites: Add javascript in blogspot (blogger) post
Blog title - Useful and interesting web sites
Post title - Add javascript in blogspot (blogger) post
In SEO (Search Engine Optimization) world, title like this is not effective.
Why?
Because keyword prominence rule say : the closer a word is to the front of the analyzed text area, the more relevant or important it is.
In our example keywords in blog title (which are not linked with post) decrease relevancy of keywords of post title.
We will have better SEO effect with title in which post title come first.
Example 2:
[Post title]: [Blog title]
Add javascript in blogspot (blogger) post: Useful and interesting web sites
In second case search terms connected to post title like "add", "javascript", "blogspot" will have better chance to be in top google results then in first case.
How to change title for each post in blogger
This guide ensures keywords in your post titles are discovered more easily. To do this you will have to change template. Follow this blogspot tutorial to change your title in [POST TITLE: BLOG TITLE] format and achieve better google search result page ranking for your posts:
- go to Layout --> Edit HTML
- in Edit Template box find this code:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> - and replace with this code
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <title><data:blog.pageName/> : <data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> </b:if> - it is good idea to make backup of blogspot template before you click Save Template, new code tell that if visitor load certain post page title should be in [POST TITLE]: [BLOG TITLE] format, else title should be in [BLOG TITLE] format
Change title effect on my blog visits
Visits to my blog after change title is done was increased by more than 40% !!! Here is picture that illustrate increase of my blog traffic.
Green line display visits before change title is done and blue line is after change title is done.
It is important to say that after you make this change you should wait some time (usually few day or in worse scenario few weeks) while google index your blog pages.
To check if google re-index your pages :
- go to Google page
- type site:[BLOG-NAME] (site:interestingwebs.blogspot.com)
- click search
- now you can see if your posts are in Post-title format
On the end, my experience with this method is really good, so if your blog traffic significantly grow after you use tips from this article I would ask you to put a link or two to my blog andfollow my blog.