As the fastest growing vertical in search, many people are now starting to recognize the value of local search engine optimization can have on their site traffic. Also known as regional search, it's basically geo-targeting your audience when they search.
Local search works best for the service provider, or a retailer that has numerous locations. While the search volume won't be as great as a non-regional phrase, the person who reaches your site will be a more targeted visit and most likely ready to convert.
Another happy accident in local search is that for sites that are well optimized may also pick up rankings in mobile search.
So, here's what you need to do in order to rank for local seo:
* Be sure to have your location(s) full address
* If you have a regional number, list that as well since some people start with an area code
* Be sure to include driving directions to your location
* Use a mapping service to display your location
* Have pictures of your locations and name them with your street address
* Make sure your site appears in any regional directory that might be online
* If you can afford it, get listed in your local yellow pages
* Place the regions you want to rank for in your page titles
* Get text links that contain the regional phrase
Most of these techniques are are not only common sense, but also good web design. If you're in business, you want people to be able to find you, right?
Local Search Engine Optimization
Blogging for SEO
It's no secret that blogs are great for helping to boost your seo rankings. You can use a blog to get a new site ranked quickly and ahead of your main site if you are dedicated to posting on a frequent basis.
While the main goal of your blog may be to express your thoughts, talk back to your customers or as a vehicle to promote your product or services, there is another critical element to blogging.
Search Engine Optimization & Marketing.
Because of the frequency of active blogs (daily - or at least 5 times a week) the search engines have put high weight on blogs that are focused and tend to stay on topic.
It's the freshness of content (in a perfect world) that a search engine is craving and rewarding to the blogs. The ideal situation is that the blog would provide for tiny snippets of information that over time build up to a greater whole. (Almost like a blook)
But the most overloooked element of a blog is that once you've established a frequent pattern of posting and you have the Googlebot coming to your site every few days, you can then use that to link to other sites, sub-domains or any deep links that you need to get crawled. While most blog postings may not have direct links to any sites in particular, you could always format your blog with some permanent links on the side.
Another mistake made by the amatuer blogger is that they don't realize that you can optimize your blog. True, most blogs only have a few areas, namely the "home" page and the "archive" page. But depending on the tool being used to post the blog, there are some places where you can take advantage seo-wise.
The title of your blog should be thought of as a headline - grab the reader's attention - but also be sure that your blog title is also what gets archived - that way your titles can become search queries as well.
While the main objective of a blog should be to get your message out, don't forget to take a little time for SEO and you should see your efforts payoff in the search engine results pages.
Search engine optimization
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Typically, the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.
As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.
The acronym "SEO" can also refer to "search engine optimizers," a term adopted by an industry of consultants who carry out optimization projects on behalf of clients, and by employees who perform SEO services in-house. Search engine optimizers may offer SEO as a stand-alone service or as a part of a broader marketing campaign. Because effective SEO may require changes to the HTML source code of a site, SEO tactics may be incorporated into web site development and design. The term "search engine friendly" may be used to describe web site designs, menus, content management systems, images, videos, shopping carts, and other elements that have been optimized for the purpose of search engine exposure.
Another class of techniques, known as black hat SEO or Spamdexing, use methods such as link farms, keyword stuffing and article spinning that degrade both the relevance of search results and the user-experience of search engines. Search engines look for sites that employ these techniques in order to remove them from their indices.
How to Hide Your Post Date, Time and/or Author
There are some reason for bloger to hide Post date, time and author. May be they want to see their blog looks clear or everything. Now I will show you the trick to "hide your post date, time and or author". the mothods is very simple, just find the code that I pointed to you and delete it. You can chose which part want to delete, date only, time only, author only or it all. Ok, if you decided to do it lets begin the hack.
1.Login to blogger the go to "Layout --> Edit HTML"
2.Click on the "Download Full Template" to back up your template first.
3.Check on the "Expand Widget Templates" check box.
Hide Post Date
find this code and delete it. <data:post.dateHeader/>.
Hide Post Time
find this code and delete it.
<span class='post-timestamp'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showTimestamp'>
<data:top.timestampLabel/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a class='timestamp-link' expr:href='data:post.url' rel='bookmark'
title='permanent link'><abbr class='published'
expr:title='data:post.timestampISO8601'><data:post.timestamp/></abbr></a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</span>.
Hide Post Author
find this code and delete it.
<span class='post-author vcard'>
<b:if cond='data:top.showAuthor'>
<data:top.authorLabel/>
<span class='fn'><data:post.author/></span>
</b:if>
</span>
5.Save your editting
How to Show Recent Post on the Sidebar
To show your recent post on the sidebar is very easy, you just follow the instruction below then you will see your recent post on your blog sidebar. here’s the steps :
1.Login to Blogger then Chose "Layout"
2.Click on "Add page element" (chose where you want to put it) then chose "HTML/Javascript"
3.Copy the code below and put it in the "content" box.
<script src="http://www.geocities.com/uddin_81/recent-post.js"></script>
<script>var numposts = 10; var showpostdate = false; var showpostsummary = false; var numchars = 100; </script>
<script src="http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=published&alt=json-in-script&callback=rp">
</script>
4.Change YOURBLOGNAME with your blogname.
5.The number "10" it’s amount of recent post that will be shown, You can change it.
6.Click Save.
Highlight Author Comment in Blogspot
This trick is to give a Highlight Author Comment . This will make the blog's owner comments looks different from the visitors comments. It's very usefull and interesting blogger hack tips. You can see the example in my blog. Here is what to do to make a "Highlight Author Comment" effect in Blogspot.
1.Login to blogger, then choose "Layout --> Edit HTML". Don't forget to backup your template first.
2.Check the "Expand Widget Templates" box.
3.Copy this script and put it before ]]></b:skin> or copy to your CSS area.
.comment-body-author {
background: #E6E6E6; /* Background color*/
color: #000; /* Text color*/
border-top: 1px dotted #223344;border-bottom: 1px dotted #223344;border-left: 1px dotted #223344;border-right: 1px dotted #223344;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 20px; /* Posotion*/
}
4.Then find this code:
<dl id='comments-block'>
<b:loop values='data:post.comments' var='comment'>
<dt class='comment-author' expr:id='"comment-" + data:comment.id'>
<a expr:name='"comment-" + data:comment.id'/>
<b:if cond='data:comment.authorUrl'>
<a expr:href='data:comment.authorUrl' rel='nofollow'><data:comment.author/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:comment.author/>
</b:if>
said...
</dt>
<b:if cond='data:comment.author == data:post.author'> <dd class='comment-body-author'> <p><data:comment.body/></p> </dd> <b:else/>
<dd class='comment-body'>
<b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'>
<span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span>
<b:else/>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</b:if>
</dd>
</b:if>
<dd class='comment-footer'>
<span class='comment-timestamp'>
<a expr:href='"#comment-" + data:comment.id' title='comment permalink'>
<data:comment.timestamp/>
</a>
<b:include data='comment' name='commentDeleteIcon'/>
</span>
</dd>
</b:loop>
</dl>
5.The red color text is the code that you have to add to your script. The position must be right.
6.And then save your template.
Change the Title Tags for your Blog
Until recently, the title tags generated for each page of your Blogger blog would display the blog title first, then the name of your post. This wasn't so good for SEO (search engine optimization) as this made keywords from your post titles appear after your blog title.
Luckily, Blogger have come up with a simple fix for this problem for those who use Layouts templates: the <data:blog.pagename> tag!
This new tag is already installed for new blogs (or if you change your existing template to one of Blogger's default ones).
However, if you have customized your template or uploaded a third party template, you will need to change the original
But don't worry: this is REALLY easy! Here's what you have to do:
1.Go to Layout > edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard.
2.Search for this tag:
3.Replace this tag with the following:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'> <title><data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageName/></title> </b:if>
4.Save your template! (See, this is an easy hack!)
Once you've changed this tag, you'll see that on post pages, the default [blog name] page title format for your post titles in the browser window will be replaced solely by your post title instead. This will increase the chances of your posts being picked up in search engine results for keywords which appear in your post titles (and can ultimately help draw more targeted traffic to your blog.
Comment Form Under Post On Blogger, Finally Officially Embedded!
To enable inline comments for your Blogger powered blog, you need to log into your dashboard through Blogger. Then go to Settings Comments and scroll down the page to see the new "Comment form placement" setting:
Check the radio setting for "Embedded below post" which will enable the display of the comment form below your blog posts. If you have customized your template, you will need to make a small change to your template code for this comment form to display. But don't worry, it's a very simple customization to make! 
Simply go to Layout>Edit HTML in your blog's dashboard and check the "Expand widget templates" box. Then search for this section of code:
<p class='comment-footer'>
<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
<data:postCommentMsg/>
</a>
</b:if>
</p>
Replace this entire section of code with the following instead:
<p class='comment-footer'>
<b:if cond='data:post.embedCommentForm'>
<b:include data='post' name='comment-form'/>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.allowComments'>
<a expr:href='data:post.addCommentUrl' expr:onclick='data:post.addCommentOnclick'>
<data:postCommentMsg/>
</a>
</b:if>
</b:if>
</p>
Save it. And done.
How to Hide or Show Blogger Navbar
The Blogger Navbar is a navigation and search bar on top of all blogspot blogs. It is available in several colors, and is configured in the Template tab in Blogger’s interface. You can get more information about Navbar from Blogger here.
The reason whi I remove the Blogger navbar on EVERY Blogger template is its mismatch color. Even though Blogger provide several useful features and different colours, it always not blend well with my templates. It’s an eye sore and makes style="text-decoration: underline;">my blog theme look less professional.
Show/Hide blogger navbar:
Step 1. Log in to blogger account
Step 2. On your Dashboard, select Layout. This will take you to the Template tab. Click Edit HTML. Under the Edit Template section you will see you blog’s HTML.
Step 3. Delete the code below to show the Navbar
#navbar, #navbar-iframe {
height: 0px;
visibility: hidden;
display: none;
}
or Add that code to your css code to hide the Navbar. That is all.
