It is very important and easy to do SEO setting of a blog made on Blogger. To do the SEO setting of blogger par bane blog, you have to take care of some important things.
To do the SEO setting of a blog created on WordPress, you get many plugins like the YOAST SEO plugin. But in blogger, you have to do all the SEO settings manually. It is very easy and important to do SEO setting of Blogger blog. This is important because this setting determines the ranking of your blog. And this posture is because you are reading this article in which you will get complete information. Let us know what you have to do to do the SEO setting of your blog? read carefully.
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Advance SEO Settings
First of all, open the settings in your blogger dashboard. After that set the below-mentioned settings.
Title
Write the name of your blog in the title. This is the name that is the identity of your blog. By this name, the visitors of your blog remember your blog. You need to write a title of a minimum of 100 characters.
Description
Write about your blog in the description. Write about the topic on which you have created the blog as I have written. The description should not be more than 500 characters.
Blog Language
In Blog language, choose the language in which you write your blog. If you choose the wrong language then crawlers will have trouble crawling your blog and you will get errors in the google search console. If your blog is in English then you have to select the English language.
Adult Content
Leave this setting off.
Google Analytics
Property ID You do not have to write anything in it because there is no longer any analytical ID from the website of Google Analytics. Now HTML code is available from the google analytics website which you have to paste between <head> and </head> of HTML section of your blog.
Favicon
You have to upload a square image of a size less than 100Kb in it. Basically, this is the logo of your blog which appears in the tabs. You can use fivicon.io to create a favicon.
Privacy Setting
You have to leave it ON. Its ON means that the crawlers of search engines can crawl your blog. And your blog can be shown in SERP.
Publishing setting
If you think that your blog address is absolutely correct then you do not need to change it. And if you want to change, then change with the same thought. You don’t have to change it again and again. If you change the address of your blog frequently, then there will be a lot of problems in ranking your blog.
Custom Domain
If you want to use a custom domain, then you can set it from here. And if you want to work with the Blogspot domain only, then leave it like this.
Fallback Subdomain
You can set this only if you are using a custom domain. With this, you can redirect your main domain to a subdomain. For example – if I turn it ON and set the fallback subdomain, whoever searches www.xandertech.com.ng will be redirected to the subdomain xandertech.com.ng (subdomain can be anything, like ppg or dg).
Redirect Domain
You have to turn it on because you cannot host any domain without www. If it is OFF then turn it ON.
HTTPS Setting
By the way, this default remains ON, but if it is OFF then turn it ON.
HTTPS redirect
You can edit this option only when you are using a custom domain. Leave it ON. If it is OFF then turn it ON.
Permissions
Reader access
You have to keep it public. By keeping it public, anyone can read your blog. Blog admins and authors If you have invited authors to write in your blog, they will appear here. And if you want to remove any author then you can remove it from here.
Pending author
invites If you have invited an author to write by email and they have not accepted it yet, then their name will appear here. Custom readers If you want that only some invited people read your blog, then you can invite them from here by email.
Pending custom reader invites
If you have invited custom readers and they have not accepted the invitation yet, then you will see their name and email here.
Posts setting
Maximum posts
With this setting, you can decide how many posts will appear on the main page of your blog. Like I have set 8 posts on the homepage of my blog, you can set it according to your convenience.
Archive Frequency
You can edit this setting only if you have added the archive widget to your blog. Daily – Your posts will be archived in the daily list. Weekly – Your posts will be archived in the weekly list. Monthly – Your posts will be archived in the monthly list. Yearly – Your posts will be archived in the yearly list. Post template You don’t need to do anything in it, let it be like that.
Image lightbox
Turn it ON. By turning it ON, if someone clicks on an image of your blog, the image will be maximized by popping up on the screen like a lightbox. If you turn it OFF, then whoever clicks on any image of your blog, the image will open in a new tab.
Set it to embedded. That is the best. By setting it to embedded, the comment form will appear in the embed form below the post. If you set it to popup then the comment section will open as a popup form. And if you set it on a new tab then the comment section will bloom in a new tab.
Who can comment?
You set it on users with Google accounts. With this only users with a google account will be able to comment on your blog and the chances of getting spam comments will be less.
Comment moderation
Keep it set to always. By keeping it set to always, the comments of the posts will not appear in the blog until you approve them. To approve and reject comments, you have to go to the comment section of the blogger dashboard.
Email moderation request to
If you want that you get an email notification for the moderation of every single comment, then you can set up an email from here.
Reader comment captcha
Leave it OFF because most readers do not like captcha and it takes a lot of time to complete the captcha.
Comment form message
If you want to greet the commenters or give them any warning, then you can set it from here. For example, you can see the image.
E-mail setting
You can also post it via email by turning it ON. You have to set up an email on which you can email from any email address and save it in a post or draft.
Comment notification email
If you want to get an email for every comment, then you can set email from here. Leave the rest of the settings like this if you work on the blog alone.
META tags
You have to keep the search description ON. After turning it on, you will also be able to see the option of search description in your post editor. In the search description, you have to write a paragraph of 150 characters that tell about your blog. Whenever your website is searched in the search engine, this paragraph will be shown on the search engine result page. By adding a search description to the post editor, you will be able to write a custom search description that will appear on the search engine’s result page.
Crawlers and indexing
Enable custom robots.
txt Turn it ON. By turning it on, the crawlers of the search engine will be able to crawl your blog and you will be able to manually set what crawlers can crawl and what cannot.
Custom robots.
txt Copy the code given below and replace www.xandertech.com.ng written in it with your domain. Then paste it in custom robots.txt.
User-agent: * Disallow: /search Disallow: /tag/ Disallow: /category/ Allow: / Sitemap: https://www.xandertech.com.ng/atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
- Enable custom robots header tags NO
Robots tags for home page
In this, just turn all and noodp ON and leave the rest of the settings OFF.
Archive and search page tags
In this only turn on noindex and noodp and leave the rest off.
Post and page
tags In this, just turn all and noodp ON and leave the rest OFF.
Google search console
By clicking on it, you can go to the website of the google search console. You have to verify the addition of your blog to the website of the google search console. After this, you have to submit the sitemap.
If you are using a custom theme then you do not need to tamper with anything. If you use the default blogger theme, then you can set the blog feed to full or excerpt as per your wish. Leave the title and enclosure links OFF
Conclusion
How to do SEO setting of Blogger Blog?
SEO of a blog made on Blogger is as important as that of a blog made on WordPress. There are many plugins available to do SEO on WordPress, but in blogger.com, you have to do all the SEO manually. In this article, the SEO setting from beginning to end has been explained in detail.
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