What Blogger taught me about getting into Google searches

Meta Tags is a blog description. Make sure this descriptions is highly key worded. Google's web crawlers will use this information when pulling websites for a search. This will also show up after your website name in a search.

So you want your blog to have a great start! One thing you have to consider is how people will find you. SEO is search engine optimization. This is how Google and other search engines list, and find your blogs when people search key words. When I started to think about my sites SEO i went directly to the source to find out what Blogger says about the fact.  If you were to Google seo you would get a crazy about of information. So its just better to go to the experts.

What I learned is first you need to allow search engines to access your blog.
First you Need to go to your Settings> Basic. Then add a description to your blog. This helps Google define what your blog is about. Then go to Privacy and edit the settings. You can choose to add your blog to the Blogger Listing. You can also allow search engines to find your blog. 


Then you can access your SEO Options under your Settings Tab and then go to Search Preferences. If you need a tour of your Blogger settings Click here.

Error Pages are the pages your viewers are sent to when they click a bad link or have an error. They are normally called 404 pages.  Here you would give your viewer a nice message letting them know they should push the back button or a link to go to back to your main page.

Crawlers and Custom Robots, I would not touch these settings unless you have done further research. I did not change these settings for my blog.

Would you like to read more?   Here is Google's SEO Starter Guide! Its a great read

Jessi