How to have SEO friendly titles on Blogger.

If you are using Blogger.com to blog you will like this cool little hack to optimize titles for search engines I found today via www.bloggerplugins.org.

This trick can largely drive traffic to your blog.When you search google for something and your blog is present in the search results…Then the Title of the result will be of the form Blog Title + Post Title This type of a title wont attract searchers.. Here is a hack that will change the title to the following attractive format Post Title + Blog Title This trick will help you to optimize the blog title for Search Engines. I am damn sure that this trick will increase your site’s visitor count.. It will take a while for the Formatted titles to appear in search results(will appear when it is reindexed)

Goto Blogger Template>Edit Html and find:

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

Then replace it with:

<!-- Start www.bloggerplugins.org: Changing the Blogger Title Tag  -->
<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>
<!-- End www.bloggerplugins.org: Changing the Blogger Title Tag  -->

Save the template and you’re done. I hope you’ll use this nice trick to get better optimized titles for your blogger.com blog.