SEO Tips for Blogger Title and Meta Information

It's not possible to play trick within < title > tag, we can write the title in three parts:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/> - This is my blog description</title>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;archive&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>

Better Title for SEO:

Index page: Blog Name - Description
Item page: Title - Blog Name
Archive page: (use the default setting)

And out put some meta description ONLY on the front page:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<meta content='Online news, business, politics, analysis, blogs, comments and photos from the world.' name='description'/>
<meta content='news,politics,business,report' name='keywords'/>
</b:if>

You can also add the tag information to meta keyword on the item page as well.

Wordpress Magazine Style Templates

One friend asked about the Magazine Style Templates for Wordpress. I think there are many options for you if your blog is based on Wordpress. In the future I'll recommend some of them in my wordpress blog wordpress.wordpress.com , and if you need a brief review of wordpress Magazine Style Templates, please check this site:

http://www.wpthemesnews.com/ (Very impressive portal for Wordpress Themes!)

Templates design has become a profitable business, so you may have to pay for those premium themes. I remember about a year ago Solostream offered free download. I got this theme without paying anything, but now it costs $49.00~$179.00.


BTW: I'm going to launch a blog hosting service on www.Bloog.us , it'll be based on Wordpress MU. In order to build up my own blog hosting service, I reserve www.Blogger.ac and www.WordPS.com for a year but now I'm going to sell them on Sedo, as I feel the domain www.bloog.us sounds better!

Magazine style blogger template from woork

Download Template | Live Demo


A Great magazine style template for Blogger.com , Antonio Lupetti did a good job!

Here are the tutorials from him.

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Download Google Templates for Blogger

Thank you for your replies! Now I'm glad to release the download links for Google templates mentioned in my last post. The second and third templates come from old blogger-templates.blogspot.com but now they are not available there. I have to say I still miss how it used to be, those classic templates remind me my old salad days in campus. Although XML templates are main stream now, I still prefer classic HTML templates and always use them in my personal blogs.

Google Chrome Template: Download and Demo
Google Blogger Template: Download and Demo
Google Search Template: Download and Demo

I didn't test the first one, some people said you have to switch your language setting to English, I'm not sure about that.

And for the second and third one, I simply copy the code from my backstage, please delete all those unnecessary links and code like my rss links or some Google AD. I didn't do the clean work today but I'll fix it if I have more time next week. Also please save those JS files on your own server as I might not renew that domain blogbeta.net next year.

Personally I like the third one and I made it imageless, so the pages load very fast. I use the HTML code to display the Google logo as a showcase.

Google ^TM

Due to copyright issues, it's not appropriate to use Google logo on your website as TITLE, so let's Goggle it:-)

Goggle ^TM

I know Google bought domain www.google.ac from a Chinese guy about 2 years ago, they said many Canadians visit this domain because of the typo similarity (Google.ca ranks #58 on Alexa.com). but it's no doubt that www.goggle.com is the best typo for Google.



Is today the first day of fall 2008? :-)