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Blogger technical SEO setup is the method of setting up your Blogger's settings for a better ranking on search engines. Unlike WordPress, Blogger has limited features which enables users to struggle setting up their Blogspot basic SEO.
Blogger's technical SEO are the basic settings on your blogger dashboard that allow search engines to find and better understand what your blog is all about.
These settings usually include setting up or enabling a search description, selecting your blog language, setting up a favicon, enabling visibility to search engines, and enabling custom robots.
In this post, we will take you through step-by-step on how to setup your Blogger basic settings. If you have not understood anything after this article, you can contact me for a video guide.
Blogspot Technical SEO Settings
Here are all the settings for your Blogger/Blogspot basic SEO settings:
Title and Description
Choose your the title of your blog. It should be the name which visitors will see when they visit your site. In the description column, enter detail description of what your blog is all about.
The good news is blogger has provided up to 500 words count. This means you can describe in details what your blog is all about, the aim of creating the blog and other useful information.
Language, Google Analytics and Content
Next is to choose the language of your blog. The default language is English, but if your blog is not in English, you can select the language of your choice.
Having Google analytics on your blog is essential in measuring how visitors use your blog. You can connect your blogger to Google analytics by signing up one. On the adult content tag, do not turn it on if your content is not adult. Make sure to adhere to Google content policies if your blog is adult.
Favicon
Favicon is the logo of your blog. Favicon gives your blog a professional look. Make sure to create a professional looking image for your favicon. Follow the instructions in creating the image. Remember to give your favicon a unique design.
Publishing, Https and Privacy
The privacy tab indicates whether you want search engines to find and index your site. If you turn it off, search engines including Google cannot index your website. So it is safe to turn it on if it is off.
With the publishing, you do not need to do much if you are not using a custom domain. However, if you bought a custom domain, you can connect it to your Blogger through the publishing section. You can this our article on how to connect custom domain to Blogger.
Unlike WordPress, Blogger has a free https to secure your website. You can turn it on and wait for some minutes for it to manifest. Without turning on the https, your Google will always issue warning to your readers.
Posts and Post Templates
The post section shows the number of post you want to appear on your blog's homepage. You can choose any specific number. Also, turn on post template tags. Those are optional but essential in speeding up your website.
Meta Tags
Turn on the meta tag and enter the description of your website. Here, summarize what your blog is all about. Make it simple and short. It is what will appear on search when someone searches the name of your blog.
Custom and Crawlers Indexing
Here, enable the custom robots.txt and headed tags. On the homepage and posts and pages tag, enable the 'All' and 'Nodp' tags. However, with the Archive and search pages, enable 'noindex' and 'nodp' tags.
Monetization
Enable the custom ads.txt tag. This section is essential in adding advertisements txt. Some popular methods of monetization where you will need ads.txt are Adsense, Ezoic, and adx.
Edit User Profile
This section shows the details of the author. Here, you will find your profile page, sites that you follow, blogs that will appear on your profile, and many other information.
On the privacy section under your profile, you will be asked to check or tick certain boxes. Make sure you read or understand everything before checking any box.
Your email account you used to open the blog will be your default email address. Your username will also appear there including your display name. Update your profile photo if you wish.
Profile photo is essential in giving credibility to your blog. Google does not love anonymous blogs. Having a profile photo can increase your blog's credibility.
Select your gender and enter your homepage url if you wish. Note that it is not a must or necessary to fill Al the information. You can skip some if you wish.
Next is to enter your current city, region or state, country and other necessary information. Choose your industry and your current occupation. You can write as many as you wish.
At the introduction page, write a little biography about yourself including your qualifications, name and year you were born. Provide relevant information that will get more people to trust your site.
Finally, enter your favorite music, books and movies. You can also create a random question and answer it yourself.
To conclude, setting up your blogspot blogger SEO for search engines is one of the most important part in blogging. You can also check my next article on how to perform On-page SEO on Blogger.
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