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Why I love the Custom URL by blogger ?

Having good permalink is very helpful for ranking in Search Engine Result Page. The target keyword must be included in the permalink to be more search engine friendly. At the same time, the title also need to be compelling for others to read. Before this the problem with blogger is that, it does not come together with the ability to customize the permalink. So, a title need to be carefully chosen so that the title addressed both to attract visitors and to rank high in serach engine.  A bad example of not carefully choosing a title is my old post way back in 2009 entitled: [Tutorial] Blog feed ke twitter guna twitterfeed which led to to blogger automatically assigned following permalink to the blog post. http://www.zulseffort.net/2009/10/tutorial-blog-feed-ke-twitter-guna.html Notice that, the word twitter feed which is the main keyword is not even in the permalink. Which is very bad for the post's SEO. Luckily blogger make an improvement where th...

Important: Google Will Penalize Ad Heavy Page.

This is an important news for blogger friends, especially those who make money blogging. According to search engine land. Google will penalize Ad Heavy Page this of course include blogs. An excerpt from the post The head of Google’s web spam team, Matt Cutts, shared the news when speaking at the Pubcon conference today. Cutts said Google is testing algorithms that determine ”what are the things that really matter, how much content is above the fold.” Adding further, Cutts warned: “If you have ads obscuring your content, you might want to think about it,” asking publishers to consider, “Do they see content or something else that’s distracting or annoying?” - searchengineland I do realize that there are many blog that are full of ads until a level that there are more ads than content. If your blog are like that. Its time to remove some advertisement. By having lesser ads in blog, you can focus more on other optimization factor like placement, colour, etc. For adsense blogg...

Heading Tag : H1 or H2 for post title ?

Change ( H1, H2 , H3 ... ) tag for blogger blog .. why? The heading arrangement of your blog post are important not just because its look more structured but the search engine determine the keyword too.It may sound confusing at first since its related to SEO. Actually it is easy. Imagine you are writing a report for your assignment. The report of course have heading tag arrangment according to the chapters, section and subsection. It is easier to read. The same goes to the blog although writing a blog post is not as strict as writing reports. For search engine, h1 is the priorirty follows by h2, h3 and so on. H1 is what the page is all about. The main topic, and the reason why the page is there. H1 or H2 for post title? There are question about whether should you use H1 or H2 for the post title? From what i understand by reading around is its depend on whether the blog is a niche blog or personal blog. A niche blog can have the structure like this: Heading Struc...

Post Title with H2 tag for better blogger SEO

One problem in blogger is to optimize the h2  tag for blogger post. Initially the tag for blogger post title is h3. Last night i spend some time changing the html code of zulseffort.net. I tried most of the method available in the net as shared by other blogger buts its not working. Most likely because the tutorial are based on the old layout while my blogger template is using blogger template designer.  I  forgot to print screen the initial of heading and phrase elements condition before changing the coding. But i managed to print screen the heading and phrase elements after taking some time tweaking the html code. The problem with blogger is that the h2-tags is used for the widget title not for blog post title.  No h tags for post title After some changes in the HTML coding. This is the result.  Blog post title in h2-tags  The post title is now under h2 tags and the widget title is under h4 tags. However the changes in tag...