Turn on https for a blogger/blogspot blog

Google allows your blogs to be served over an encrypted connection. This feature was rolled out long back for blogspot blogs. In order to make use of this feature, you have to do almost nothing, but this post will provide some more details around the same including setting up of http to https redirects.

If you are using a blogspot blog(i.e not a custom domain, then your blog will already be having an https address.

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XML Sitemap for Blogger

Sometime last year, we had informed you folks about Google rolling out XML sitemaps for Blogger blogs. Though we couldn’t find any official announcement from Google/Blogger, it looks like this feature is now available on all Blogger blogs including those which use a custom domain name like this one.

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Optimize H1,H2 & H3 heading tags in Blogger

Heading tags are a way of organizing and prioritizing content in a HTML document. There are 6 heading tags - H1(the most important one) to H6(the lease important one). Among these six tags,H1 tag is the most important tag followed by H2, H3 and so on. By default Blogger uses H1 tags for the blog title, H3 for post titles and H2 for sidebar titles. Having proper weighted headings is really important from an SEO perspective and this tutorial will help you to assign heading tags based on importance.

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Recipe Markup For Blogger

I have been doing some cooking experiments and came across lots of awesome BlogSpot blogs with recipes of mouth watering dishes. This post is for all of those BlogSpot Food Bloggers who would like to spice up their recipe posts in Google Search results. Google Search results uses your webpage markup to identify better ways of displaying meaningful information

If your Recipe blog has these markup information added , then Google will try to display your recipe pages in a better way.

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Redirect one page to another in Blogger

Blogger has launched an Array of Search Engine related features and one of them is the ability to create Custom Redirects. Technically Blogger allows you to create 302 Redirects which are used to specify that the Web Page has temporarily moved to a new location.

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Add Meta Description Tags to Blogger

Meta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document and Search Engines might use this data to display the search snippet when they display a page from your blog. Most of the Social Sharing Tools like the Facebook Share or the Google Plus buttons will pick up this meta description to create the snippet which gets shared to the Social Networks.

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SEO Tips for Blogger - Part 1

Search Engine Optimizatio or SEO - All of you might have heard of it??So what exactly is it?

What do we do to make our Blog Friendly to our readers? - We do change the layout and design so that our blog looks elegant to eyes.

What do we do to make our Blog friendly to Search Engines like Google,Yahoo and Bing? - Here is where we should do SEO..
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