A very good way to increase the SEO of your blog is to ensure your links contain the necessary keywords for your particular post.
Using Blogger that's not always easy, considering they like to cut off your title and make only the first couple words included in your link structure.
In this short video I explain how to do so. It's actually an extremely easy concept. All you do to publish your post with a short title because that will be your link, then quickly edit your post and add your normal title.
Video Demonstration
Transcription:
Hey guys, todays post is about shortening your links for blogger using a quick, easy and effective little tip that doesn't require any editing or anything.
This is the title here for my post and the problem is it's a pretty sweet title, and you know that's how you want it. The problem is when you publish this, it's gonna make a link and it's gonna go 500 Million Super Awesome Secret's About - and then it will cut it out. And there will be an .HTML after about.
The main keyword in this would be Twitter and it's not going to show up in the link at all because it's way over here. There's a way to get creative and figure out a new title and intergect this over here but there's a better way of doing this and let me show you. That's the title that I want, and now I'm going to make my link title. And how I do that is I just shorten it, and let's just say 500 Awesome Twitter Secrets.
Now that's a really short title but it will fit in the link. So let me show ya. You publish it, and what happens when you publish something for the first time it makes a link for you and it will always be that way. So in order to fix this, it's a functioning title but I want to make it long. You go back and you edit it and let's put that title I came up with in the begining, it's a little bit longer. So I publish it and let's view it.
As you can see you have your nicely shortened link up here, that has the keywords that you want mainly Twitter. And down here you have your title that you want, so you can have your cake and eat it too.
No matter how many times you change this, the link will always stay the same. From now on I would suggest when you make a new post, think about how you can make a nice short link for your post. As opposed to just letting the cards fall where they may so to speak missing out on some keywords in the title. Having keywords in the link is GOOD thing. *moronic jabber* uh uhh soo go to thelinkmedic.com for more on blogging and STUFF. :)
7 comments:
Hi, this is a cool tip. My only concern is that you need to do this really quickly after your post is already written so your RSS subscribers don't get a link to a blank post.
Hey Ms. Ileane,
You shouldn't have a problem with the RSS subs, the post was just blank because it was an example. And yeah when I do it I pretty much immediately change the title and the RSS will always get the title you set it to as long as you don't wait a few hours to do it or something.
useful tips.
Pooja
MLM Developers India
http://mlmdevelopers.com/products/mlm-software/corporate-mlm-soft/feature.html
Thanks Pooja! Ty for stopping by.
This is an issue if you have it automatically post to twitter and Facebook using something like dlvr.it which is immediate.
Very true Tim,
I turned my auto post things off just because of this, so it's a bit of a trade-off. Some are instant some are not I'd recommend trying it out and see what happens. Most do have a bit of a delay so if you do it within seconds you're fine.
I'm going to have to check out dlvr.it , haven't heard of that one yet. Thanks for your comment!
Thank you for the info. Much less work than adding a script. Will definitely use this little trick the next time I post.
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