Simple SEO tip for Blogspot

SEOPACE

19 Sep, 2021

Also when you blog with Blogger (Blogspot.com) you would do well to optimize your blog for the search engines. Of course, this is the only way your blog has a chance to end up higher in the search engines. With all the positive consequences that this entails for the visitor numbers of your blog. I suspect that only a few people know and apply this simple SEO tip for Blogspot…

As a user of Blogspot you do not have the option to use a handy plugin like Yoast SEO . But that doesn't mean you can't adjust your blog, your pages and your blog articles to make them rank better in the search engines . By the way, a good alternative is provided by Yoast SEO itself with the real-time content analysis . Copy the text of your page or blog post into the tool, enter your focus keyword and look at the suggestions that are given.

SEO tip for Blogspot: add a (meta) description for your blog

In short, the meta description tells Google (and the Google user) briefly what a particular page is about. In this case, what your blog is generally about. How can you add and change the description?

open your blog's dashboard
click on the triangle for more options and choose Settings in the drop-down menu
then choose Basic in the submenu
At the top of the screen you will find Description
click Edit

In the box you can now enter a short description for your blog. In principle, it means that you tell what your blog is about in plain, intelligible Dutch. What is important for your blog. It is highly recommended to process at least a few focus keywords . You have a maximum of 500 characters at your disposal. The first 160 characters of this are especially important. After all, that part becomes/is visible as a description of the search result in the search engines.

While you're in the settings of your blog, check whether your Blogspot blog is set up in such a way that it can be indexed effectively by the search engines. To that end, the question should be May search engines find your blog? in the Privacy submenu, of course, are answered with Yes .

Insert description for your articles and pages

If you are creating a new page or blog post, you can also include a description here. You will find the box for this on the right-hand side of the screen under the heading Search description. Of course, you also use specific focus keywords for the page or blog post here.

Apply this to all your (future) posts and pages!