Optimizing Images in Blogger Using Alt Tag for SEO

It has been almost 4 months since I've started this blog. The most interesting fact is that even though my blog doesn't serve any kind of image resources, more than 30% traffic comes from image search. Yes, that's what google analytics says. Understood the importance of doing SEO for images? Now lets look into it...

What is Alt Tag?

Basically the crawlers/bots can't see the images as like a human can. They use the description of the image to find out what the image is about. As you know SEO is about spoon feeding and you have to feed the search engines with the description, and an Alt tag is used to feed the search engine with the description.

How to Add Alt Tag To Blogger Images?

Adding an Alt tag to an image on your blogger blog is basically simple as blogger offers us it by default. Just follow the below steps to add an Alt tag easily.

Step 1: Click on the image that you uploaded to your post editor.

Step 2: Click the properties button.

Step 3: Type the description of your image in the text area below 'alt text':

Step 4: Now click the OK button.

Note:

• Try to keep your description short and smart.
• Avoid using special characters like #, $, %...

Even though alt tag plays the main role behind the SERP ranking of images, the other factors like texts around the image, name of the image file, title...etc has an impact on the ranking of images. So if you can optimize all these things then for sure you can simply snatch a position on the first page itself.

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Submit Your Blog To Top 5 Search Engines

As far as a new blog is concerned, submitting it to major search engines is very much important. Submitting your blog to search engines helps your blog get crawled by spiders/bots much faster than it would have been in normal. Which increases the chance of your content getting indexed in search engines, hence increasing the organic traffic to your blog. There are infinite numbers of search engines around the web but it's not practical to submit your blog to all those search engines. So here I am providing the top 5 search engines for you to submit your blog.

1) Google: I think there is no need to explain about the search engine giant here. Even the new born kids know what Google is. If you can't make your blog indexed in Google then there is no meaning continuing with your blog better you pack up. It's just because Google is the primary source of traffic till you become well established.

2) Yahoo: Yahoo the 2nd most used search engine in the world was once powered by Google but later became independent by 2004. Yahoo even can bring you some organic traffic even though it will be bit low when compared to Google. You must have a yahoo account in order to submit your blog.

3) Bing: Bing the 3rd widely used search engine (was formerly known as Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search) is powered by Microsoft. Submitting your blog to Bing is simple and no registration is required.

4) Baidu: Baidu is a search engine based in china. It's widely used across China. Never underestimate Baidu as it was once ranked #5 by Alexa. Also don't forget the fact that almost 1.3 billion peoples are living in China. No registration is required for submitting your blog to Baidu and is simple.

5) Index: Yandex the largest search engine in Russia is based in Russia. It is also the 8th largest search engine in the world. It has more than 150 million searches per day so leaving it behind is not wise. Registration is required for submitting your blog

That's it! Now submit your blog to these search engines and enjoy organic traffic.

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Three Useful Tools For Bloggers [Free]

The 3 main things behind a successful blog is quality content, social promotion and backlinks. Using tools to increase productivity is a better idea to be more successful within less time. Many tools are spread across the internet which will help you with your blog. I have selected 3 of them which are absolutely free and easy to use. Those three will help you to create quality content, promote your blog through social networking and building quality backlinks.

Ginger Proofreader

Has some trouble with your English? No need to worry. Ginger proofreader is there to help you! Ginger Proofreader is a grammar checker which corrects your text line by line if there are any grammatical errors. As well as you can download the tool and run it along with your browser as an add-on, which makes it easy for you to check for errors while writing the posts. Using Ginger Proofreader you can easily check your posts for any errors by pressing the  F2 button and can correct the errors with a single click.

AddMeFast

As you all know without social promotion your blog won't reach anywhere. On the same time social promotion becomes worthless if you don't have any social connections. There is where AddMeFast becomes handy.

AddMeFast is a free social promotion tool which helps us to get more Facebook likes, subscribers, twitter followers, retweets, google + followers, Stumbleupon followers and much more. What you have to do is register an account at AddMeFast and add your social profiles and start earning points by following peoples and you'll get some followers for the points you earned. Now what to do with the followers is with you.

Backlink Watch

Wrote some quality content, promoted it via social networking sites. Now the next thing is to create some organic traffic from search engines, right? As you all know the number of backlinks are the main criteria for a higher page rank. Backlink watch as the name says helps us to watch the backlinks of other blogs as well as yours. What you have to do is find out where those top blogs in your niche get backlinks and try to create some of that kind.

That's all. Now create some quality contents and bring your blog to the front.

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How To Add Meta Description For Each Posts In Blogger

Meta tags are those tags which give an idea about your blog/site to the search engines, in order to index a page correctly. Most the blogger bloggers use a single meta description for all their blog pages/posts, which often results in duplicate meta descriptions. You may ask how this happens? Simple, all the posts may not contain all the words you've given in the meta description and this in turn results in duplicate meta description and most the crawlers will down rank your page/posts because of this. How can we overcome this? Just add different meta description for each posts and pages by following the below steps.

First of all you have to enable Meta description tag for your post. For that;

Step 1. In Your Blogger Dashboard Click > Settings > Search preferences:

Step 2. Navigate to “Meta Tags”.Click "Edit" link corresponding to Description.

Step 3. Select "Yes" option, write meta description for your Homepage and click save.

Finally, you have enabled description meta for all posts. Now you can add meta description for your posts while you create a new post or edit a post by adding your meta description at "Search Description" tab in the post editor.

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How To Optimize Blogger Template For Better SEO

In my previous post i have shared with you some seo optimized blogger templates. As i have told earlier those are the templates which are already optimized for better SEO. How can we optimize our template for better SEO? Today i am going to share with you the technique. Even though unique content is the main thing behind SEO, optimizing your blogger template may help spiders to crawl on your blog more easily.

Adding Meta Description And Keywords Tags

I have seen many blogger templates which don't have any meta tags. Meta tags are those tags which tells the search engine about what your blog is about and hence helping search engines to index your blog more accurately. To add meta tags to your blogger blog:

1) Go To Your Blogger Dashboard Click > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed:

2) Using Ctrl+F Search For <head> and just below it paste the following Code:

<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>

3) Replace DESCRIPTION HERE with your blog's description, KEYWORDS HERE with some keywords related to your blog's niche, AUTHOR NAME HERE with your name.

Optimizing Blogger Post Titles

Swapping your blogger post title can increase your position in search results much better than what you think. Post titles plays an important  role in SEO. You may have noticed that when a post is shown on search engine it appears like [YOUR BLOG NAME], then it shows [YOUR POST NAME]. This shows that the post titles are not optimized correctly. A properly optimized post title will appear like [YOUR POST NAME], then [YOUR BLOG NAME], hence showing the keywords at first.

1) Go To Your Blogger Dashboard Click > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed:

2) Search For <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> and replace it with the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>

Using H2 Tags in Blogger Post Titles

Blogger post titles are generally set to H3. But most search engines give more importance to H2 tags. And normally the most important keywords of a post is seen in the title. So its important to utilise H2 tags in post titles to get more importance to the titles.

1) In Your Blogger Dashboard Click > Template > Edit HTML > Proceed > Expand Widget Template:

2)  Use Ctrl-F to Search For <b:if cond='data:post.title'>

3) Replace <h3 class='post-title entry-title'> to <h1 class='post-title entry-title'> and </h3> to </h1>. As seen below.

<b:if cond='data:post.title'> 
<h3 class='post-title entry-title'> 
<b:if cond='data:post.link'> 
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a> 
<b:else/>  <b:if cond='data:post.url'> 
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a> 
<b:else/>  <data:post.title/> 
</b:if> 
</b:if> 
</h3>
</b:if>

That's it you have now successfully optimized your blogger template for better SEO

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