Optimize your Blogger post titles for better PR in minutes with one code

There is a ton of competition on Google for page rank and just as many ideas on how to increase it. When it comes to finding a website when searching what do you look at first? The page's title and so does Google's spiders. The title of your post is one of the key ingredients to any successful high traffic page. I'm going to show you how to fix your titles in Blogger permanently with one section of code.

The average Blogger post in Google will look like this. Beards and Burgers Blog | Top Ten Ways to Shave your Beard. As you can see the name of the blog shows up first. A better way of doing it is having the post show up first, people will be more keen to click it because it will catch their attention faster and at a glance know what it's about. So let's change it so it will read, Top Ten Ways to Shave your Beard | Beards and Burgers Blog

Step #1 Goto your Blogger Dashboard (Link opens in new tab)

Step #2 Click on Design

Step #3 Download your template so you can revert back to it if there is a problem.

Step #4 Check the Expand Widget Templates, this ensures all the code will be there, wait a few moments for it to load. If your computer is slow give it some time. Then proceed.

Step #5 Click anywhere inside the HTML box and hit CTRL+F to find:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

Step #6 Highlight that code and replace it with:

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

Step #5 Save your template and test it out.

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