SEO

Google PageRank Updated on 3rd April, 2010

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Google PageRank has been updated on 3rd April, 2010. It was announced earlier that the next PageRank update after the January 2010 update will be in April, the update was seen yesterday. This is a happy news for all the bloggers.

techrena pagerank

Bloggers all over the world have a lot of concern for Google PageRank.As far as I am concerned, I believe that Google PageRank shows the quality of your posts, and also the reach and design of your blog. Techrena.net has got a PageRank of 3 this time which was 2 previoulsy. We are very happy with the update and consider it as a gift to techrena.net’s birthday which was on 27th March.

As far as we have observed most of the bloggers are satisfied with the page rank update and most of us take it as a catalyst to our hard work.

You  can check the PageRank of your blog using the Google Toolbar:

http://toolbar.google.com/

Swapping Blogger blog title and post title -Blogger SEO tweak

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In the previous post about Blogger title tweak, I’ve mentioned about the other way of optimizing blog title structure,swapping blog title name with post title name.

As said earlier,default blogger.com blogs title structure is “Blog Title followed by post title” for individual posts,now let’s see how to change this structure to “Post title followed by blog title”  (swapping).

1.Go to Dashboard>>Select your Blog>>go to Layout Section>>Click Edit HTML tab

edit html in blogger layout

Find the little HTML section code shown by the red arrow in the following image your template HTML code

tweaking blogger title Where you’ll find the following title tag.

<title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title> [Note:You may also use CTR+F function in your browser to search this little code.]

3.Replace the above code with this one:

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

[note that this will still show your blog title at home page,only changes individual posts structre]

4.Save the Template and open any post from your blog and observe the title structure on the top of your browser it must now look like “blog post title | blog title”

Like wise,Wordpress blogs titles also can be tweaked for better Search Engine Optimization,soon be posted here.

Please feel free to leave a comment here if you are having any troubles while doing this.

Blogger blog title tweak for better SEO

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Blogger.com is most widely used free blogging platform on the internet.Easy to use interface,ability to  publish post at one click does make it a highly recommended platform for newbie bloggers.

Having said that,one must also say that Blogger  blogs are not so optimized for Search Engines.Take for instance the title structure of the individual posts which is “Blog title followed by Post title” by default in blogger.This may not be the one you want particularly if you are concentrating on SEO for your blog.

Let’s see one way to change this Blogger default title structure for individual posts to just “post title” (thus eliminating the undesired blog title at the beginning of the title structure].

1..Go to Dashboard>>Select your Blog>>go to Layout Section>>Click Edit HTML tab

edit html in blogger layout

2.In the template HTML code,look for(use CTR+F to find) the following little HTML  code:

title><data:blog.pagetitle/></title> [pointed by the red arrow in the image].

tweaking blogger title

3.Replace the above code with the following code:

<b:if cond=’data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;’>
<title><data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
</b:if>

4.Hit the Save Template button and load any of your blog posts in the browser and observe the change in the title structure,the new structure will only show Post title alone.

You may also want to refer to next post covering how to swap your blogger title with post title instead of completely removing the blog title from title structure.