Archive for September, 2008

Change your post title H tags in blogger for better SEO

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

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!

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Best performing Google Adsense colors

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

I’m going to share a piece of information with regard to Google Adsense which you might find useful while trying to monetize your blog. Statistics regarding the most profitable Adsense Ad colors have been revealed and I will be sharing this information with you.

google adsense best performing colors

As you can see, I have already started experimenting. Not every site will fit into this criteria and I think you might need to experiment a few times until you find the right colors and Ads for your site. Good Luck!


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Display Adsense Ads only in post pages

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Many of us have implemented the “Read More” hack to display a selective post summary on the mainpage of the blog. What if we want to display adsense ads only in the post page? It is well knows that this technique will bring about a higher CTR (click through rate) as long as the ads are targeted to your audience. Here is how you do it.

I assume that you have implemented the “Read More” hack.

Step 1: Find for the code

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;’>

Step 2: Convert your adsense codes using a HTML parser. You can find it here. 

Step 3: Once you have converted your codes using the HTML parser, you can add it right below the line of code shown on Step 1.

That’s all! Simple right? Now your Ads will only display within post pages and right in your posts.

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SEO tip: Optimize your title in blogger

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

Today I will share a tip for customizing your blogger template for better SEO. If you are using a Blogger template, you might notice that when you load a page or post the web browser displays the Blog Name followed by the Post Title. For example, Bloggers ‘N Dollar: SEO tip: Optimize your title in blogger. There’s nothing wrong with this, but it would be better to optimize the header so that the browser will only display the post title like how it appears for my blog. In my case you will only see SEO tip: Optimize your title in blogger.

I will share with you how to go about this. It is a simple hack which you can implement in a few minutes.

Step 1: Firstly you need to go to Edit HTML on your layout page.

Step 2: Look for this piece of code

<title> <data:blog.pageTitle/> </ title>

Step 3: Replace the above code with

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;item&quot;'> <title> <data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/> </title> <b:else/> <title> <data:blog.pageTitle/> </title> </b:if>

What you have done here will change the title according to the post that is being displayed. Google will consider the post title as the title of your blog and you will have a better chance of being displayed higher during a search - SEO. So go ahead and try this!

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Search Engine Optimization - increase traffic to your blog

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

I’m sure you know that the key to increase revenue on your blog is to “increase traffic to your blog“. But with billions, maybe trillions of blogs in the blogosphere how to gain the attention from visitors to visit your blog? Well there is the hard way and the easy way. I’m not going to talk about the hard way because I’m sure you’re here because you’ve already tried it and would like to gain some traction - faster. My advice to you is, learn from the best and forget the rest.

One such blogger who is making news in the blogosphere is Alvin Phang. He has written a nice book on how he achieved his success and I just purchased it. So I thought I would share my insights with you. I did think that this book is a good value for money as it offers many different ideas that you could easily implement to increase traffic. The language might not be perfect but the flow of information is very easy to understand. It does stand apart from other books that I have read and implemented for my other technology blog.

There are 10 chapters in total and these are what the chapters are about:

Chapter 1: Some overview on the do’s and don’ts for bloggers. Great info if you’re just starting out.
Chapter 2: Getting started with blogging and he talks about the power of atomic blogging.
Chapter 3: How to increase traffic using the right keywords. Very insightful information regarding research on the right keywords to use.
Chapter 4: Setting up domain names and choosing the right domain name.
Chapter 5: Offers some secret “Search Engine Optimization” (SEO) tips to optimize your blog.
Chapter 6: Writing compelling articles and tips on how to outsource your posts.
Chapter 7: Different ways of monetizing your blog. I personally found this chapter to be quite interesting.
Chapter 8: Ideas on getting traffic and lots of it.
Chapter 9: Leveraging on social networks to increase traffic to your blog.
Chapter 10: Advanced traffic tips.

This package also comes with some bonus material including one from Yaro Starak (who by the way is one of the superstar bloggers in the blogosphere). If you are new to blogging, this is definitely a good investment. If you have some experience, you will still benefit from the ideas offered in this book to increase your traffic. Overall, this is value for money. If you need more information, you can click here.

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