SEO factors in blogs at Blogger.com - some useful tips.

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When you set up a page in a blog like Blogger.com or in your own Wordpress or movable type blog, remember the search engine optimisation factors for blog pages are the same as for normal html pages. There are some particular points you need to know for Blogger.com blogs.

1.Blogger.com blogs are structured such that the search engines will take the description for indexing purposes.

2. There are no headings h1 or h2 provisions - so you need to create these if you want to have them for seo purposes. The way to do so is to modify the template to one that contains the h1 and h2 headings. Normally, I modify a template so that the Header itself becomes the h1 and the h2 header to contain my keywords or description.

Modify the Links from the template to link to your other sites or sites to get a reciprocal link.This will help you with backlinks. Donot despise blogger.com links. They are useful.
To prevent blog spam, put on the word verification.

Change the status of the settings to archive daily.

Also remember never to do any auto-posting to your blog at blogger.com if you wish to keep the blog for a long time.

The very moment their detection bots find that you do autopost and autoping, that blog will gets deleted- no questions asked. If you wish to do autoposting and autoping, do it on a blog to be set up in wordpress on your own host.

And yes, you can also monetize your blog with Google Adsense. If you like to know how to monetize your blogs and become a Google Adsense publisher, check the footnotes below my signature line.

So in summary, your seo work centers a lot on the Description box for the blogger.com blog pages, and maintaining a good keyword density on your page. IF you know how, you can modify the template to contain the h1 and h2 headers. Also, never do any autopost or autoping for blogs in blogger.com if you wish to keep these blogs for a long time.
Peter Lim

Footnotes:

1. To apply for your Google Adsense publisher code FREE, visit http://learn-google-adsense.blogspot.com Click at the bottom of the blue icon that says "Generate Revenue from your site with Google Adsense" and follow the instructions.

2. To learn more about Google adsense FREE, visit http://www.dynamic-resources.info/adsense