Blogspot – What Happens When You create it (+ Free)

Blogspot – What Happens When You create it (+ Free)

Heck, the year 2020 will poise a lot of challenges to blogspot fans and that’s the truth.

The short head term “blogspot” means blog on the spot.

And you’ll need to get that right.

For example, you create a blogspot blog just for the purpose of ranking high.

You stay specific, adding generic names to build up your profile as a blogger.

With that, what if the big challenge of it faces you.

Now, what’s next to do?

In this article, I will push forth some SEO strategy to get your blogspot blog feature on Google.

And gets rank to the top 10 spots of Google.

Yeah! I know as a blogspot blogger you’re really pushing hard every day to gain the momentum and the authority on the web.

But, no significant results of the hard work you labored.

I know that’s suck and at the same time, it doesn’t show you’re a failure.

Just that you ain’t getting everything right yet.

This makes me prompt this article to you in order to have an in-depth knowledge of it all.

So, let’s kick in.

How to use blogspot/blogger you created, hack on the following:

1. Blogspot profile
2. Keyword research + Search intent
3. How to use long-tail keywords to rank for short-tail keywords.
4. How to use blogspot for the featured snippets.
5. The limitation of blogspot.

Hack 1 Blogspot profile

Blogspot is the subdomain of the blogger platform.

The purpose it serves as a blogging publishing tool is for bloggers to make a name for themselves.

Been a free blogging platform doesn’t hesitate it from not ranking high.

But, if the blogspot owner doesn’t know much about SEO.

Then, I will say that’s the only hindrance you have from ranking.

Now, let me walk you over to the basics thing you need to know to pertain to the blogspot dashboard.

The overview of blogspot back-end:

On the right-hand corner side of the blogger dashboard.

You’re poised to different editing tools to leverage on.

First, the blogger dashboard overview is partitioned into the following space:

• Posts – The number of posts published by you.
• Stats – overview, posts, traffic sources(the site driving traffic to your blog, Audience.
• Comments
• Earning – Google Adsense
• Page – you can create a contact page, privacy policy.
• Layout
• Theme
• Settings

Well, I won’t further my talk much on the following outlines.

Instead, I will buttress more points on how to create a post in blogger.

Now, how to create a post in blogger, hack on the following:

1. Start with the headline(title tag) – not more than 65 characters.
2. Leverage subheadings
3. Use bullet points and numbers
4. Link to other networks and leverage internal links as well.
5. Select the picture or video tab for more illustration of the topic.
6. Main keyword in the meta description.
7. The short URL works even better.
8. Schedule the time and date in the blogger.
9. Use the label.

Start with the heading(title tag)

This is your first step and you must stay calm in it especially when you’re a beginner.

The title of your content must not be longer than 65 characters.

And let it appear at the beginning to boost your SEO chances of ranking high.

For example, the title of this blog post is how to create a blog on blogger.

Fine, the main keyword there is a blogger while the following words act as a supplement that makes it a long-tail keyword.

Leverage Subheadings

First, introduce to your readers of what they’re about to get and how the content at hand will be useful.

And leverage your main keyword there.

For example, I can make my headline 2 be “how to create a blogger blog”

You can see that the main keyword “blogger” reflects there.

And to do that, click on the Normal tab, scroll down the drop arrow and select heading for H2 tag.

Use bullet points and numbers.

User experience is the key and one way you can improve that is to leverage bullet points and numbers.

Help your content stand out by improving the readability score.

Use bullet points and numbers to state your suggestions on the topic.

Link to other networks and leverage internal links as well.

Internal links and external links not just boosts the dwell time of your content.

But it also makes you rank for search terms you didn’t optimize for.

When you link up to other websites you’re actually boosting the authority of your blogspot blog.

Select the picture or video tab

To engage your visitors better leverage the picture and video tab for more enlightenment into the topic.

The main keyword in the meta description

This is needed.

In fact, extract 2-3 keywords in the headline tab to the meta description.

To boosts the ranking of your blogspot over time.

A short URL works even better.

For the permalinks, use the head term keyword.

For example,

Instead of using how to create a blog on blogger, you can leverage blogger as the only keyword there.

It helps boost your ranking chances in the long run.

Schedule the time and date in blogger

For a special reason maybe you don’t want it published automatically.

You can schedule the date and time that suit your personal interests.

Use label

Tag the content with a label.

Not more than 2 or 3 but I recommend you use 1.

For example, I can label my content as an SEO.

That way, the SEO tag is relevant to the content at hand.

Other parameters are there to leverage on, the quotation box and the rest.

But In order to fast track the whole thing, I stumbled over to what matters.

Hack 2 Keyword research + Search intent

Keyword research + search intent = higher ranking.

Keyword optimization + Great content + Evergreen headline = higher search term rankings.

Here’s the thing.

To rank a blogspot blog highly on the organic search result lists.

You must understand the dynamics of SEO.

Okay! Let’s stick into the picture.

I leverage Semrush for keyword research.

Wait, I’m using this post you’re reading on now as an example.

So, I type the head term “blogspot”, it fetches this below.

That way, to optimize and rank high for this keyword takes a whole lot of courage.

But I like doing the hard thing.

I further the keyword research to the keyword difficulty for the head term “blogspot”.

With that, I noticed this keyword is not optimized for the featured snippets.

Well, since I know the avg monthly searches for the keyword “blogspot”.

The next step is…… Leverage search intent to it.

……How will you go about that?

Type the main keyword you want to rank for, stroll down to the related search results.

Try to study the trend of the keyword variant there.

Click on one of the results and study the trend there as well.

After all, optimize 2-3 keywords there for your content, avoid stuffing it.

Use the related search results as your subheadings.

For example, I optimize my previous content for this keyword “how to do SEO on blogspot”.

Because of that, I got featured on the snippet space.

Hack 3 How to use a long-tail keyword to rank for a short-tail keyword

One thing is sure, in the year 2020, another year of search intent curvature.

And to stay on top of the search terms, the audience’s search intent says it all.

Google has put much weight on it.

In fact, search intent headlines are gaining more momentum on the web these days.

And to make your blogspot blog stay on the top spot of the keyword variant.

You must study the keyword trend of the end-users.

The long tail keyword is where you find your SEO opportunity.

Source: Mechanised

And it contains more than 3 words as it is more descriptive.

For example, “The limitation of blogspot” is a long-tail keyword.

And it will attract fewer searchers but drives relevant visitors to your blog.

But, to get the deal done, this is exactly what you have to do and rank high for short head terms.

For example, the headline of this article is…

……Blogspot – What happens when you create it (+ free).

Now, the headline above is a long-tail keyword and my plans for it is to rank for the short head term “blogspot”.

Source: Mechanised

First, I know it won’t rank immediately for the short keyword.

The blog post will start its momentum build-up from long-tail keywords.

Why because a short tail keyword is highly competitive.

As it tends to drive more traffic to a website.

But, here’s the kicker.

To rank for such a head term, I will start with the headline.

Extract the main keyword there, even at the beginning of the headline.

Then, I will introduce the keyword in the 1-2 paragraphs.

After I have implemented that, I will structure the content around the main keyword.

Make sure it reflects in the meta description.

And to finalize it all, only the main keyword “blogspot” will be used in the permalinks section.

This will boost its chances of ranking for a short tail keyword in the long run.

Hack 4 How to use blogspot for a featured snippet

If I run over to the organic search engine and type the keyword “blogspot”.

There’s a thing, no featured snippet in it.

Even though Semrush has depicted that already.

Then, how can we optimize for this new SEO trend called featured snippets?.

Heck, find a keyword that has featured snippets in it, study the most used keywords by the audience.

That’s the most frequently asked question.

Use the most asked question on your subheading, either as H2, H3 or H4.

For example, look at the way I did mine.

I inserted the keyword “how to do SEO on blogspot” as the H4 tag.

That way, I got featured on the snippet space.

Read here: Blogger SEO: The Ideal Blog Post Length 2020(Tips To Rank Included)

Hack 5 The limitation of blogspot

• Here are the limitations of blogspot:

1. Inability to read the tempo of the content.
2. No contextual mapping of On-page SEO.
3. The restriction of SEO plug-ins.
4. No full analysis of the analytics dashboard.
5. Lack of related keyphrase.
6. Lack of cornerstone content.

Here’s the thing.

With the new blogger update, you can easily export the data analysis metrics over to the Google Analytics dashboard.

In order to study the behavior of your audience even better.

But, everything needed to rank is embedded in the blogger.

Although there’s no full access to how the On-page SEO techniques are fairly.

Unlike the Yoast SEO for the WordPress blog and SEO plugins(unique features) that makes it more SEO-friendly.

So, that’s just the limitation of blogspot.

Read here: How SEO Is Changing For Blogspot(The New SEO Checklist 2020)

Conclusion

Hey! I believe you get what happens when you create a blogspot blog.

Yeah! There’re challenges poised to every blogspot blogger and you’ll need to tackle it to rank high in Google.

So, over to you, what happens when you create a free blog on blogspot? Any other contributions?

Read here: How To Do SEO On Google Blogger 2020(+ Tutorial Pictures)

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