How To Optimize Your Blog For Search Engines - Pt 1

SEO is the common term over the web used for Search Engine Optimization. Though it's very common but it's the root of all the internet, it's a game changer factor for the internet. All the well established sites and establishing sites spend their enough efforts and money in Search Engine Optimization i.e. SEO.


So What's SEO?
If I have to define it in easy language then I would say

"SEO is a way to register your site, your online business or blog to the search engines. This way search engine will recognize you and will direct some of the traffic to your sites thus helping you to earn profit from that traffic". 

Advantage Of Using Blogger.com
There's an advantage for blogspot/blogger users, that is it's the part of Google Company. So google take extra care of the blogs hosted on Blogger. Unlike Wordpress blogs you don't need to depend on the external plugins in Blogger blogs which will maintain the SEO of your blog. For that purpose Google has designed an internal settings in blogger dashboard separate for the search engine optimization.

Here's the screenshot of it

Let's Dive Into details 

Here in the below image we see there are three major sections i.e. Meta tags, Errors and redirections and last is Crawlers and indexing. We will learn about them what they do exactly and how to utilize it's potential for our benefit.

1. Meta tags
This is the first section which is easily definable from the name, that it add's meta description to your blog.


2.Errors and redirections
This second section controls the 404 error pages and redirection of the link in your blog.


3. Crawlers and indexing
This is the very important section of the Search preferences, this tell the google bots how to crawl in your blog and show them or not in search engine results.