10 February 2008 ~ Blogger Templates Designs Plugins Widgets Hacks Tips Tricks Tutorials

How to Change Post Title Tags Blogger for SEO

This trick can largely drive traffic to your blog.When you search google for something and your blog is present in the search results...Then the Title of the result will be of the form Blog Title + Post Title This type of a title wont attract searchers.. Here is a hack that will change the title to the following attractive format Post Title + Blog Title This trick will help you to optimize the blog title for Search Engines. I am damn sure that this trick will increase your site's visitor count.. It will take a while for the Formatted titles to appear in search results(will appear when it is reindexed) Goto Blogger Template>Edit Html and replace

Now, Find this code below:


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

How to Change Post Title Tags Blogger for SEO
Replace it with this code below :


<!-- http://blogger-templates-designs.blogspot.com: Title Post SEO  -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> ~ <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>
<!-- http://blogger-templates-designs.blogspot.com: Title Post SEO  -->

Save your template and done! Now all you need to do is just fill your post title with rich keyword so you will get more traffic

If you have implemented this trick on your site, please let me know how is it going. thanks.

How to Change Post Title Tags Blogger for SEO

Blogger Hacks- How To Put Widgets Label Cloud Or Widgets Tag Cloud On Blogger Sidebar

A tag cloud or label cloud for blogger is a list of all the labels used within a blogger blog displayed with style.You can see a demo of the Label cloud widget here on my site. This Tag Cloud Widget was originally developed by phydeaux3. I have just simplified and made it easier to install..

You can see a good implementation of this label cloud widget on one of our readers blog -Speak Media Blog.
First Of all Goto Your blogger Layout>Page Elements page and add a Labels Widget there..You can Do that using the Add a Page Element Option on that page.

Blogger Hacks- How To Put Widgets Label Cloud Or Widgets Tag Cloud On Blogger Sidebar

Choose to sort the labels Alphabetically when prompted.

After Adding the Label Widget Goto Layout>Edit Html (Do not expand the widget templates for the sake of easy explanation)

You will find some code similar to


<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Labels' type='Label'/>

Add Code New


<b:widget id='Label1' locked='false' title='Label Cloud' type='Label'>
 <b:includable id='main'>
 <b:if cond='data:title'>
 <h2><data:title/></h2>
 </b:if>
<div class='widget-content'>
 <div id='labelCloud'/>
  <p align='center'>
  <script type='text/javascript'>
  var cloudMin = 1;
  var maxFontSize = 25;
  var maxColor = [0,255,0];
  var minFontSize = 10;
  var minColor = [0,0,0];
  var lcShowCount = false;
  // Don't change anything past this point -----------------
  // Cloud function s() ripped from del.icio.us
  function s(a,b,i,x){
  if(a&gt;b){
  var m=(a-b)/Math.log(x),v=a-Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m)
  }
  else{
  var m=(b-a)/Math.log(x),v=Math.floor(Math.log(i)*m+a)
  }
  return v
  }

var c=[];
  var labelCount = new Array(); 
  var ts = new Object;
  <b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
  var theName = &quot;<data:label.name/>&quot;;
  ts[theName] = <data:label.count/>;
  </b:loop>
for (t in ts){
  if (!labelCount[ts[t]]){
  labelCount[ts[t]] = new Array(ts[t])
  }
  }
  var ta=cloudMin-1;
  tz = labelCount.length - cloudMin;
  lc2 = document.getElementById(&#39;labelCloud&#39;);
  ul = document.createElement(&#39;ul&#39;);
  ul.className = &#39;label-cloud&#39;;
  for(var t in ts){
  if(ts[t] &lt; cloudMin){
  continue;
  }
  for (var i=0;3 &gt; i;i++) {
  c[i]=s(minColor[i],maxColor[i],ts[t]-ta,tz)
  } 
  var fs = s(minFontSize,maxFontSize,ts[t]-ta,tz);
  li = document.createElement(&#39;li&#39;);
  li.style.fontSize = fs+&#39;px&#39;;
a = document.createElement(&#39;a&#39;);
  a.title = ts[t]+&#39; Posts in &#39;+t;
  a.style.color = &#39;rgb(&#39;+c[0]+&#39;,&#39;+c[1]+&#39;,&#39;+c[2]+&#39;)&#39;;
  a.href = &#39;/search/label/&#39;+encodeURIComponent(t);
  if (lcShowCount){
  span = document.createElement(&#39;span&#39;);
  span.innerHTML = &#39;(&#39;+ts[t]+&#39;) &#39;;
  span.className = &#39;label-count&#39;;
  a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(t));
  li.appendChild(a);
  li.appendChild(span);
  }
  else {
  a.appendChild(document.createTextNode(t));
  li.appendChild(a);
  }
  ul.appendChild(li);
  abnk = document.createTextNode(&#39; &#39;);
  ul.appendChild(abnk);
  }
  lc2.appendChild(ul); 
  </script>
  </p>
  <noscript>
  <ul>
  <b:loop values='data:labels' var='label'>
  <li>
  <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:label.url'>
  <data:label.name/>
  <b:else/>
  <a expr:href='data:label.url'><data:label.name/></a>
  </b:if>
  (<data:label.count/>)
  </li>
  </b:loop>
  </ul>
  </noscript>
  <b:include name='quickedit'/>
  </div>
</b:includable>
 </b:widget>

Now find


]]></b:skin>

Add CSS Label Cloud Widgets for Blogger


#labelCloud {text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;}
#labelCloud .label-cloud li{display:inline;background-image:none !important;padding:0 5px;margin:0;vertical-align:baseline !important;border:0 !important;}
#labelCloud ul{list-style-type:none;margin:0 auto;padding:0;}
#labelCloud a img{border:0;display:inline;margin:0 0 0 3px;padding:0}
#labelCloud a{text-decoration:none}
#labelCloud a:hover{text-decoration:underline}
#labelCloud li a{}
#labelCloud .label-cloud {}
#labelCloud .label-count {padding-left:0.2em;font-size:9px;color:#000}
#labelCloud .label-cloud li:before{content:&quot;&quot; !important}
]]></b:skin>