These tips bellow how to optimizing blogger template for search engine ( SEO ) :
Tips 1 : Blog Title
The title of a blog normally is BLOG TITLE : POST TITLE, but you can improve SEO by modifying the title to POST TITLE | BLOG TITLE. The following code in your template like this:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
replaced by the 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>
You can also add more keyword in blog title like this example:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/> | Blogger Tutorials | Tips | Tricks | ...</title>
</b:if>
Tips 2 : Meta Keywords and Meta Descriptions
Please add the code before :
<b:skin><![CDATA[/*
You can find the code with Ctrl-F in Edit HTML.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta name="description" content="Top SEO Blogger Template, tips, Tips SEO" />
<meta name="keywords" content="blogger tutorials, tips, tricks,...etc />
</b:if>
Tips 3 : Heading
Heading Tag (H1, H2, H3, H4, H5) is also important for SEO. All of Blogger widgets (gadgets) title use H2 tags. But, Minima Template use H3 tag for post title and many blogger templates use H2 tag for post title. To improve SEO, you need to use H1 tag for post title. For example, look this code,
<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h3 class='post-title entry-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</h3>
</b:if>
This example shows that your template use H3 tag for post title (If you don't find it, your template may use H2 tag for post title). Replace H3 (or H2) at this code with H1. Look at this example :
<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h1 class='post-title entry-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</h1>
</b:if>
You need to change post title font size by adding this code before ]]>
h1.post-title, .post h1 #Blog1 h1, #Blog2 h1 { font-size:1.5em; }
