Most of the blogger templates are not SEO friendly because templates were designed long ago and haven’t been updated, probably since 2007. In the mean time Google SEO algorithm has changed a lot. So, to keep up with the competition making your Blogger template SEO friendly is very important and so that, this small SEO related article will help you to leave your competitors behind.
Now, let’s talk about how to make the changes applicable. These easy instruction will give you the easiest way to turn your post title to h2 from h3.
In every template the blog title are written between <h1> tag where the post titles are under <h3> tags. There are many reasons behind that your blog might not being shown up in the search results and this is one of those reasons. So, that's the area that you can improve your blog in the run of SEO.
Now, let’s talk about how to make the changes applicable. These easy instruction will give you the easiest way to turn your post title to h2 from h3.
Just do as the following 6 steps says -
This is not a big change or addition for better SEO in your blog but remember it is how SEO works. Not only for blog, but also for effective SEO use <h2> tag instead of <h3> for any post title. This small and effective actions you take regarding your blog makes it a hit on SEO and search engines.
- Log in to your Blogger Dashboard
- Click on Template tab placed on right
- After loading the page click on Edit HTML button
- Select Expand Widget Templates on the top-left side of the pop up
- Then search for the line - <h3 class='post-title entry-title' itemprop='name'> (Use Ctrl+F to search then type Paste the above line)
- Now all you have to do just replace <h3> with </h2>. Hay, not finish yet. Remember there is a closing tag too. So, replace </h3> with </h2> & that's it - The Happy Ending..:)
If your template is mobile device supportive - then you will find the above line for two times while searching. One for the Desktop and another for mobile.
Replace both <h3> with <h2> and the closing as well.
