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One of the things that I have learnt about SEO is that the post title is very important. I’m sure a lot of you know that already. So you should customize your post title h tags for better SEO. But how to go about it? Well for one thing, the h1 tag is very important for Google to index your page. But in blogger templates, most of the post titles are either h2 or h3. So how to change it?

Very easy, just follow the steps below (don’t forget to click on Edit HTML):

Step 1: First find for the line

data:post.title

Step 2: Now all you need to do is to find for h2 or h3 and replace them with h1.

Don’t forget the closing tag. Simple right? Now you can try it on your blogger template!

It is every blogger’s dream (and mine too) to get a high page ranking with Google. Getting a high page ranking with Google will increase your site’s visibility to search engines which will ultimately drive traffic to your site. If your page ranking is high enough, you might even feature in the first page of Google search results. Sounds good right? But how to increase your page ranking? Well, there is no easy or short way here. Its hard work and I’m not going to talk about link farms. But, there are some tips that I will provide that you can use which would invariably help to increase your page ranking steadily.

Links to your from any page ranking site is good, and more the links better are your chances to get a higher page ranking. Here are some simple ways you can follow:

1. Use yahoo answers. Yes, this is true. Instead of asking a question on yahoo answers, why don’t you search for a question that is relevant to your blog post? Find for a question which has been unresolved, answer the question with a link back to your blog post. But don’t spam. You will never get repeat visitors if you spam. If you solve someone’s question, they might just link back to your post and your page ranking will increase.

2. Use Digg. Choose some of your good posts and post it on digg. Interact with some digg users and befriend them. You can link back your blog on your profile page. This counts towards your page ranking as well.

3. Commenting on other people’s blog is also very helpful in increasing your page ranking. This does not need further explanation. But one word of caution again - avoid spamming.

4. Join webmaster forums. This could be a good way to increase links back to your site as well.

I hope that you will be able to use some of these methods to increase your backlinks and subsequently the page ranking of your site. Good Luck!

Many webmasters in their zeal to get a high number of inbound links tend to get carried away by the information available on other blogs. One such mistake is linking or getting into linkfarms. What is a linkfarm? Well a linkfarm is basically a website which has tons of inbound links which are totally unrelated to their website’s content. This is done assuming that they will be able to score higher with the search engines. Trust me, this doesn’t work! Google frowns upon linkfarms and you might just not be listed in search engines at all. So why go through this hassle? Linking to linkfarms might get you in trouble too. After all, you wouldn’t want to lose that hard earned pagerank right? Its even worse if you just started your blog and you might be banned by Google. So be wise, stay away from link farms. You can identify a linkfarm using the following 3 methods:

1. The website has very low or no page rank
2. The website has very little content (or no content!)
3. Poorly maintained website

So be on the lookout for linkfarms and stay clear.

Source: SEO for blogging