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How to optimize your blog post titles by Replacing H3 with H2 For better ranking

Blog titles is strongly one of the secret ways to call up your blog in search enagine results, if properly optimized. In my last post, I discussed on how you can add Meta description to your blogger blog.

I find out lately that most new bloggers still use blogger platform, most especially those that are in other niches. But today, I will be talking on how you can optimize you blog titles by using H2 tag. This is a very important aspect of search engine which you need to know and most especially if you are still using blogger platform.

Headline tags start from H1 and go up to H6 in decreasing order of size. They play acute importance in your blog template optimization. Just as I explained in my previous post that Meta description is a way to tell the search engine what your blog is all about.

Headlines, bolded and highlighted texts catches attention. By default all blogger templates are made such that the H1 tag is given to Homepage Main Title, H2 is given to Blog Description or Header dates, sidebar headers and H3 is assigned for post titles.

Which invariably mean that your Post titles are second most important part of your blog after the main title. Sidebar titles and Post description are peanuts in comparison to your post titles. Do you know that it’s you post title that pings search engines for updates and they are indexed and as well crawled by robots.

When it comes to SEO, we often refer to post title as the KING while the post body which is the content is refer to as the Queen; funny right? So if the so called king is addresses with a wrong header tag (H3) instead of H2, then I think you should start looking for alternative to get search engine traffic.

How to Change Post Titles Heading Tags in Blogger Blogs

To change post titles default H3 tag to H2 heading Tag then follow the steps below,

Go To Blogger> Design > Edit HTML

2. Backup your template

3. Search for .post h3

4. and replace it with .post h2 (keep replacing that for all occurrences of .post h2)

5. Then search for,

<h3><data:title></data:title></h3>
And replace it with this,

<h2><data:title></data:title></h2>

6.Save your template and Congratulations the job is done.

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How to add Meta Description in your Blogger blog

Meta description is a very important and crucial part of one’s blog composition for search engine optimization SEO. These Meta tags are commonly located in the header of our website that is always invisible to users visiting the site.

Well, to be more succinct, these tags have only one purpose: to include information about the page such as author’s name, date, keyword, description, title, among others. That’s just what the Meta tag does.

Google bots also like to read Meta tags of a site or blog and give these tags (title, keywords and description) information to Google search engine about the blog. According to these tags, your blog is shown in Google search engine results pages (SERP’s) as to what you’ve already inputted in the head section of what your blog is all about.

What is Meta Description?

Meta description in a simple term is an HTML or XML element that shows the description of a web page to the search engine crawlers. It tells the information about your web page to crawlers so that search engines may provide your web pages in search results for a particular keyword.

How to Add Meta Description to every post in Blogger

If you look at your blogger settings very well, you’ll notice that by default the Meta description setting is disabled so we’ll need to enable it so that it can start working perfectly well.

The first section shows how to enable the Meta description for your blog homepage only and the last section will show you how to set meta tags for every of your post.

Simply follow the steps below.

• Go To Blogger >> Settings >> Search Preferences

• Look For Meta Tags Section and Tick “Yes” To Enable It.

• Now a box will appear where you have to write your Meta tag or description. Make sure that it doesn’t exist 150 characters.

Click Save Changes!

Note: if you are using a custom template for your blog then you should sit tight and read this. Most often it’s always very impossible for Meta tags to work on custom template, but if you are using the normal blogger default, then you are good to go.

Now for you to make the Meta tags work properly on custom template, you need to insert a short XML code into your blog template.

Just follow the steps below.

• Go To Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML

Search For <head> and Paste The Following Code Below <head>

<b:if cond=’data:blog.metaDescription != ""’>
<meta expr:content=’data:blog.metaDescription’ name=’description’/>
</b:if>

• Save Your Template and You have successfully added Meta tags for homepage.

• Now let’s jump to next step.

How to add Meta Tags to every post.

It’s straight forward, after you have enabled the homepage’s Meta tag, the next thing for you to do is to move to the post editor or create new post.

You will see “search description” section by the right hand corner of the side bar, simply write the description of the post. This search description was initially disabled, but after enabling the homepages’ it will automatically enable for every of the post and pages.

Below is a diagrammatically representation of how you will go about it.

Over to you

Dear friends, this is just a simple way to set your blogger Meta description. It is easier than what people thought. If you follow the discussed steps, you’ll find it very easy. Thanks for stay tune and been patient.

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Search engine optimization for dummies: The secret ways to optimize your blog posts

As you can see, there are lots of blog that respond to calls from search engine result and most times you are often scared, right? Because you believed your blog might not rise to that level. Now your story is changed as long as you’ve found your way down to this blog.

Perhaps you were searching for a particular keyword and you saw a sub domain or a new blog competing with an old and authority blog for that particular keyword. The question that first come to your mind or every other webmaster are how come this is happening. Neither believe me, there are now tweak nor tricks for running the show , but the only trick is the one that has been hidden from you.

I know you are anxious now, but just relax. There is definitely a secret and strategies to use in other for you to be able to challenge authority blogs out there in search engine results.

Today I will share with you the known secrets on how you can make every of your blog posts show in each keyword related to your niche.

1. Write a unique blog posts/ contents

For your information, the journey of your blog post optimization starts from how well written and distinct your blog posts are. This is the major challenge most bloggers face, apart from the normal blog promotion activities.

Also Read: How to write a blog posts that Your readers Would Read

A blogger who doesn’t want to learn the habit of creating a quality content will never find a way out blogging industry. Successful bloggers have to keep their head straight in demand to what visitor want, which high quality contents.

Moreover, Google also love quality content more than quantity. If you’ve decided to publish one single article in a day and you are sure it’s a quality content, it’s far better than publishing 10 articles that aren’t compelling or engaging.

Therefore, your unique content will always caught Google eyes first and get index as fast as you can think of.

2. Add “ALT” tag to your blog post images

I believe if you are a constant reader of this blog, you should have come across a post on adding tag to you blog posts. The issue here is that the “ALT” tag informs the search engine bots of the category in which your images falls.

Also Read: How to Drive Traffic By Using Image Tag

The fact that bots cannot read images, which is why you need to tag it for proper categorization. For instance, if you upload an image and you did not add the ALT tag, bot/ search engine will not discover it but as soon as you add the ALT tag + keywords, search will discover it whenever such keyword is been search for, and this would help get more traffic to your blog.

3. Create Permalink for your blog post.

This has since been working for me; you need to take note that creating permalink for every blog post you write is very important, because this is a very good way for you to get good search result from the search engines.

The tweak behind creating this custom permalink is that you’ll set the permalink with your keyword, and this gives you more control over your blog posts and the blog itself.it provide more information to your visitor when your keywords are been shown from the search results.

4. Use Optimized Blog title (H1- H3)

Header tags are very important when it comes to search engine optimization. A lot of people find it very difficult to get their posts to the first ten searches of the Google result because they couldn’t optimize their blog post title.

Also Read: How to make Post title appear before blog title

This is very essential in that it makes search engine bots to easily crawl and show your post in the keywords that best suit it. If you are a naive in the use of header tag, then let me give you an introduction to it before I make a post on it.

Normally, we use H1 tag for the blog title, H2 and H3 tags are used for blog post titles. But by default, blogger has already assign H3 tags to blog post title which is not too good for search engine query. Therefore, if you want to make your posts visible in search engines, simply change your H3 to H2.

5. Submit your blog to Google Webmaster

I believe this post is now becoming more interesting right? Because I’ve already given virtually everything you need to get your blog post optimized. But we don’t have to leave the services of the great webmasters (Google and Bing).

Also Read: How to submit your blog to Google Webmaster Tool

Google webmaster is a tool which you can use to submit your posts very fast after you publish it. Once you notify Google that you have a fresh content on your blog either by pinging or any other ways, Google will start sending bots to your blog and your blog pages and posts will be crawled.

Also read: Submit Your Blog To Bing Webmaster

I wrote some post on how to get your blog posts indexed on Google very fast, you can check the post.

Conclusively, do you have any other means by which you optimize your blog posts aside the ones above? Feel free to share your views about this post and kindly use the comment box to state your observation and modifications.

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Blog post Images: How to increase the size and get royalty free images

Good day ABC Readers, how are you doing? I believe you enjoyed my last post that I wrote on Harleena? If you haven’t read it, then I’ll advice you open it in a new tab and also read it after this post.

Read: How to get social media shares like pro’s- Harleena sighn as a case study

But today, I’m bringing yet another informative post. I’m sure some bloggers have written articles on it, but many bloggers are not taking it too serious as they should.

During the week days, I tried promoting my blog posts on thewriterssocial; this is also one of the happening blogging communities where you can submit your post and it’ll be shown in their home page for other writers to comment and like. After some few days that I’ve submitted a post, I got a private message from the admin suggesting to me that I should try and be using bigger images in other not to make my post lost on the platform.

Images they said speaks a thousand words in an article or post. Most times the image in your blog post gives your reader a very good reason to read the post. I noticed recently that Harleena uses images to pass across message to her followers on Facebook and which is a very good thing.

So what I’m I saying in essence is not only should you use larger images that have been use by many others, but to use images that are made only for you. Gbam!!!

I caught you right? There are some images that are called “Royalty free images”. I’ve you heard about them? They are images that have the license to be use freely. You don’t have to acknowledge the source like some bloggers do.

Thanks to a new friend that I met yesterday, he opened my eyes to so many things about using images on blog post. He taught me where to get free images that are not Google banked.

We all know what Google hold against people that uses other bloggers’ images? Sometimes ago, I wrote some few articles on images:

1. How to get backlink from images

2. How to watermarked your images

You can read them later.

These two posts were purposely written for those who steal images on Google image search, you need to read these to know the negative effects of plagiarism.

From my research, do you know that Google searches individual blog servers to see if there are copied contents, stolen images, and linked attached to images (acknowledgement)?

Oh! Now you know that. When Google bot finds out that the image on your post isn’t yours, and you have almost the same keywords with the original owner of the images, they rank you low and rank him high.

Victor ekpott my new friend is a prolific web designer and developer; he knows the root core of building websites. He is a different man with a distinct principle of life and an unshakable integrity. He has built websites for many top people here in Nigeria and also in abroad. You can connect him on Facebook and LinkedIn.

Now back to our main topic,

How do you make your image bigger?

There are situations whereby we upload images on our blogs and after we’ve publish them, we now realize that the images are smaller than the required speculation.

Now the situation here is how can you increase the size of your images from your HTML editor? Below I’ll be giving the steps by which you can increase the size of your images. This is particularly for those using blogger platforms.

1. Upload your desire image from your blogger post editor.

2. After the images have appeared on the compose section of the blogger

3. Then click the HTML Button beside the compose button, then you’ll see the image codes

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4. If it’s less than s1600, multiply the figure by 2. And if its s1600, then I think it’s of average size. You can increase it or leave it as well.

5. After this, you should switch back to the compose mode and your images will have been bigger.

Note: it sound great when you do all this sizing and so, but the best option is to get images that I’ve already gotten the right sizes and it has the rightful license to be used.

Like I said early, Google images are dangerous to use in the sense that lots of bloggers are attached to one or two images on Google, but on the image sites am about to share below, you can be a rightful owner of some images.

How do you get those royalty free images?

Google has lately implemented a new system where by all blog servers are been checked to know those that are using rightfully assigned images on their blog.

This new system reduces the rank of such blogs. I think I made a very good illustration from my earlier points in this post.

So the question now is how can you get the royalty free images?

During the course of my research on this post, I met a new friend Victor we discussed at length and he shared some sites where I can get royalty free images that already got the license to be used.

So I thought it’s very wise to share these sites with my friends and readers, so that you can stop using Google images and start using creative images on your blog post. Below are the lists of those image sites

Gettyimages

Thinkstock

Jupiterimages

PunchStock

WireImage

FilmMagic

Photos.com

The magic with these sites is that once you register with Gettyimages, you can automatically use other sites with the same username and password of gettyimages. Cool right?

Now Over to you

Have you been so mindful of the size, quality and creativity of images you use? Are you still using Google images? Whichever ways you get the images on your post, let us know through the comment box. If you also have other sites where one can get royalty free images for post-production, don’t hesitate to share with us.

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Google Pagerank: Updated On 6th Dec, 2013

It’s finally here, the long awaited time for bloggers to know how well they have followed the stipulated rules by matt cutts. Few months ago, I wrote an article on when is the next google page rank update. Which actually got people shifted from their slumber.

Moreover, we’ve been expecting the update way far back but Matt decided to show his superiority and brought out the update on the 6th of December, 2013. The time when nobody was excepting the page rank update. The last update actually took place on the 4th of Feb, 2013 and Google kept mute on why they’ve not updated till today.

According to a tweet I got on frank’s blog,

@NielsBoschh asked Matt Cutts, Google’s head of search spam, if there would be a pageRank update before 2014 and Math Cutts said”I would be surprised if that happened”

I believed from this conversation between NeilBoschh and Matt, Matt actually shocked everybody because no one expects any PR update again this year. Well when I heard the news on Facebook, I rushed to make some enquires, checked for my own page rank. Though I wasn’t expecting much because the domain name is still very new.

Advice to blogspot bloggers:

I will advise any aspiring blogger who wants to build a successful blog should get a domain name even before he /she starts operating the blog. You know why? If you blog with a subdomain ( blogspot.com) for 1 year, and unfortunately you couldn’t get the same domain for the existing one, then in Google’s sense, you are just starting blogging afresh.

Back to our discussion, I believe the joy of it is that when each and every one of you check your new page rank, that you should have been move forward. But the truth is that, either of these two things has to happen. Either you get lifted, or demoted. I actually sneaked on to check some of my friend’s blog and I notices that many blogs were a step backward, some were stagnant while some were upgrade.

For all of us blogger, we shouldn’t be dismay with this update because it’s not the true measure of your ability and stuffs you carry. But you have to wait for the next update which will take place next year, 2014.

Also Read: How to Get Backlinks From Forums

How to get your PR increase

1. Build a quality backlinks( Most especially from .Edu and .Gov websites)
2. Create a quality contents
3. Answering questions on Yahoo answers.

I believe we have more than just three, but I just gave the basis for those who knew nothing about improving page rank. In case, for those new bloggers who doesn’t know what page rank is.

Also Read: How do you know if Your Blog is Making A Difference

What is Page Rank?

According to Matt cuts, page rank is an algorithm used by Google web search engines to rank websites in each individual search results. Page rank was actually named after Larry Page, one of the co-founder of Google. Page rank is also a way of measuring the importance of your blog pages. Therefore, you can see how those pages on your blogs are very important?

If you want to check your blog’s Page rank, you may try to use the PR checkers Listed below:

Checkpagerank.net

Pagerankchecker.com

Prchecker.info

Smallseotools.com

OVER TO YOU

Now you’ve heard and see the latest update of page rank for Dec, 2013. I believe you have one or two things to say because you might have checked yours. So what is your say concerning this page rank of a thing? Use the comment box and let’s rub minds together.

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How to Get your blog posts Indexed Very Fast on Google Search

Today, I was chatting with one of my students and he told me about how he makes his money online, but he now mentioned that the post he wrote on how to make money online has not yet been indexed by Google. I was surprised when he said that because he wrote the blog post 27th of August, so I was wondering what went wrong.

Content is only a king when people find it both on Google search or social media platforms. It’s kind of frustrating if you noticed that your blog posts haven’t been index by Google, which means you will be missing some great traffic, search engine ranking etc. I believe this is a common challenge new bloggers encounter.

Also Read:How to submit and verify Your Blog with Bing Webmaster tool

I remember I had such a challenge too when I started off as a newbie. A friend of mine thought me this trick i’m about to share with you, on how to get your blog posts index within 5 minutes, so therefore you have to pay attention to get every step i’ll be giving.

This tip is very good for those that published a post that’ll be expiring in the next few days. For example, a popular blog brought a contest that’ll just last for 2 days and you need to get it across to people within the limited days. we all know that after those 2 days, the information about the contest is no more useful as it would have been out dated.

So for you to get the post index in a twinkle of an eye, you have to take some freaky steps. *wink*! It’s not a crooked tips anyway, but a faster way. Therefore, if you have such blog that experiences late indexing by Google, then the tips I’m about to share with you suit your case.

The funny aspect of it is that, all the tips to make Google index your post very fast will be done right on Google webmaster dashboard. And if you’ve not signed up on Google webmaster, then you can do that below.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/home?hl=en

You can as well learn how to submit your sitemap to Google in the link below

Also Read: Fastest way to submit Your Blog Sitemap to Google Webmaster tool

But for those who are already there, let continue with our tutorial. Now, the Fetch as Google option on your Google webmaster tool will be use. Do you know why? Because it will makes Google bots to quickly craw your new post and get it indexed.

NOTE: Lately, Google has place a limiting factor on this tips in that you have the number of times you can use the features in a month. Each webmaster is limited to around 450-500 fetches per month, I thinks this is a great limitation right?

Now fasten your belt and let’s get down to business.

1. Now login to your webmaster tool, and go to your site. Like a said earlier, if you haven’t register your blog on webmaster, you can follow the link given above to do so.

2. After you’ve signed in, go to “Fetch as Google” which is located under the “crawl arrow”

3. Then a small URL box will appear, carrying your blog address. Then enter your blog or post URL in the input box and click on FETCH.

You need to wait for some few second until Google bring the fetch status, and if successful, click the submit button to index the link post.

Note: if you check the input box very well, you’ll notice that your blog URL has already been written to half, therefore your own duty is just to the post’s URL from where the blog address ends on the webmaster tool.

Now after you might have followed the above steps wait for few minutes and proceed to Google search and check the indexed post by inputting “Site:submitted URL” into the search field.

When you do this, it now depends on how busy the Google bot is to make your blog appear in the search engine.

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