Optimizing hearder tags in blogger is most important part in your SEO which highly determines your search engine rankings, You must be knowing that H1 tags is most crucial tag which is has most weightage as compared to H2 and H3 tags and so on upto H6 but if you are using blogger then default blogger setup is not optimized well for these heading tags and you must optimize it to get good rankings for your blog posts as it will hardly take few minutes to properly SEO Optimize your heading tags in blogger So before we get into this tutorial lets see first what default blogger heading tags setups is and what you need to change for making your blogger blog more SEO friendly
Heading Tags H1, H2 & H3 Optimization in Blogger
By default
blogger set your blog title with H1, post title as H3 and sidebar titles
as H2 as you must be knowing that sidebar are not as much important as
compared to post titles in search engine and for SEO purpose So we have
to fix this issue
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Also for your blog homepage blogger assigns headings tags as follows
<h1>Your Blog Title</h1>
<h3>First post’s title</h3>
<h3>Second post’s title</h3>
<h2>Sidebar Gadget title</h2>
<h3>First post’s title</h3>
<h3>Second post’s title</h3>
<h2>Sidebar Gadget title</h2>
As you can see
above the sidebar is given the heading tag H2 which is not important as
compared to your post titles so we will change this to
<h1>Blog Title</h1>
<h2>first post’s title</h2>
<h2>second post’s title</h2>
<h4>Sidebar Gadget title</h4>
<h2>first post’s title</h2>
<h2>second post’s title</h2>
<h4>Sidebar Gadget title</h4>
For Post pages blogger assignes heading tags as follows
h1>Blog Title</h1>
<h3>The post title</h3>
<h2>Sidebar Gadget title</h2>
<h3>The post title</h3>
<h2>Sidebar Gadget title</h2>
Since you know
when you do a blog post you want your blog post to rank higher in search
results so we need to change the default heading distribution as below
<h2>Blog Title</h2>
<h1>The post title</h1>
<h4>Sidebar Gadget title</h4>
<h1>The post title</h1>
<h4>Sidebar Gadget title</h4>
So now that you
got the idea what we have to change to make our blogger heading tags
more SEO friendly so lets start the tutorial
Optimizing Heading tags in Blogger
Note-Before
making any changes to your blogger template please backup your complete
template if in case anything goes wrong and it for your safety so that
you can restore it
1) Login to Blogger Dashboard and click on templates and then edit Html
Now press CTRL+F and find id=’header-inner’ in your code see below image for reference and exactly change in this section only
3) Next we will change post titles to H1 from H3 on post and static pages so again press CTRL+F and find
<h3 class=’post-title entry-title’ itemprop=’name’> in your code and change H3 to H1
Setting Heading Tags for Sidebars
1) Now search for =’sidebar’ in your code
where you will find all widgets code used in your blogger blog and next
to them you will see arrow mark click to expand and within you can see the heading tags for your widgets so change the heading tags from H2 to H4 for all your widgets
Do the same for all the widgets you have added to your blog and change widgets tags from H2 to H4 for all
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Setting Heading Tags for Footer
Similar you have to do with your footer widgets so search for =’footer’ and again within change the heading tags from H2 to H4 for all the widgets and gadgets in footer of your blogger blog
Again do same for all the widgets in footer section of your blogger blog to optimize your heading tags and change all H2 to H4
4) Now Finally save your template and you are done
GOOD LUCK;)
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