Customize Post Title In Blogger- Increase Traffic

Customizing post title is no excuse if you are a good blogger. Having the options to change the margin, adding border-radius on it,  styling and adjusting the size of the font, adding background and have a hover effect on it really admire your vistors upon landing your site. In this article I will   show you not only the steps on how to customize the post titles but also on how to increase traffic in your blog  upon applying the H2-tag on it settings.

First, we will change  the settings of your Post Title. By default, all blogger templates are designed  in such a way  that the  Homepage Main Title is treated with the H1 tag, Blog Description or Header dates and sidebars headers are treated with an H2 tag , H3 is assigned for post titles. We know the fact  that your Post Titles are second most important part of  the blog after the main title and Sidebar Titles and Post description are just next in line  after to your post titles. Therefore we should threat your Post Titles with an H2 tag not H3 tag.

Live Demo

Treat Post Titles with an H2-tag

Step 1. Log in to your Blogger account
Step 2. Go to Blogger Dashboard
Step 3. Click the Template button (back-up your template for reference purposes)
Step 4. Hit the Edit HTML button
Step 5. Look for the opening code below and change it to <h2 [keep changing that for all (12) occurrences]

<h3

 Step 6.  Now search the closing tag below and change it  to </h2> [again keep on changing that tag for all (12) occurences]

</h3>

Step 7. It is now time to customize your Post Titles by treating them also with an h2-tag.
        7.1 Look for the code below

h3.post-title {

and change it to

h2.post-title {

       7.2 Just below the above code  (h2.post-title { ), paste the following css code

border-radius:5px 5px 5px 5px;
font:24px Boogaloo;
font-weight:normal;
margin-left:0;
margin-top:-15px;
padding:0;
color:#000000;
text-transform: capitalize;
text-align:center;
-webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease;
-moz-transition: all 0.2s;
-ms-transition: all 0.2s;
-o-transition: all 0.2s;
background:#ddd;
}
 h2.post-title:hover {
border-radius:0;
 background:#F78181;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 -2px 15px #FE2E2E;
 box-shadow: 0 -1px 15px #FE2E2E;
border:1px solid #ff0000;
}

Customization:

• Change the font size (24px). Higher value will increase the size of the font and lower value will also decreases its font size.
•  And the  family (Boogaloo) to Helvetica, Sans-serif, Arial, Georgia, Times New Roman etc.
• Remove the text in orange if you want to disable the hover effect on the post titles.
• Change the hexadicimal color 000000 with your own. Please select it here.

Step 8. Save your Template and Congrats!You have now a newly customize post titles and I believe that in some other way this could help  increase your traffic. God Bless!!!

Edit Permalink to Increase Blog Traffic

Every blogger especially newbie must have a basic  knowledge on the implementation of  Search Engine Optimazation (SEO) tips in order to  gain daily organic traffic. Although the implementation of this is not a must to some bloggers but for you as a goal- oriented type is very important one. In this article, we will show one SEO tip i.e. editing your permalink but when practice it before publishing your post, you will really gain weight little by little. Here is the logic behind that, every time you will publish post, blogger will automatically generate permalink  of your post depending upon the length of your post titles and that sounds good because you save your time doing some editing of that permalink but the problem is you can't tell if the permalink that blogger generated it is SEO friendly especially if your post titles is quite long.

Have a look at the example below:

Post title: How to add multiple social media buttons

Blogger perhaps generate permalink this way:
http://bloggingtipsandtrix.blogspot.com/2013/04/how-to-add- multiple-social.html

Please note that this is just  only an example for clarification purposes.

Sometimes blogger will generate a permalink that is not rich keyword targeted  ( social media buttons ) in the above example and therefore your post has a low ranking percentage because the permalink bears the content of the article.
Now if we will change the permalink above to be SEO friendly. It will become http://bloggingtipsandtrix.blogspot.com/2013/04/add-social-media-buttons.html
Note: In some cases "How to add multiple" is also a keyword depending on the keyword you are also targeting.

Additional Informations

• Limit your Post Title Characters including space between words not more than 66.
• Permalink should not be more than 30 characters that would summarize your  post title/article.
• Use Synonyms in editing your permalink to increase your visibility. Instead of using the word "Add", utilize the word "Put" in your next permalink.
• Avoid using Underscore (_) Instead Hyphen (-)

Edit Permalink to Increase Blog Traffic

Step 1. In yourt Unpublished post, click on the permalink button at the right side of Blogger Post Editor page.
Step 2. Click the the Custom Permalink Button and type your new permalink at the box provided.

Step 3. Hit the Done button and Publish your post.

References:
Bloggersentral, Mybloggertricks and world web surfers