How To Show Blogger Post Title First on Google Search Engine | SEO Tips

Google shows only first 66 characters of the title in search results. If you're using blogger for your blog then you may notice search engines by default show your Blog Title first instead of Post Title. This reduces the SEO benefits because our post titles which have the main keywords got chopped because of the characters limit in search results. Certainly this will affect the flow of visitors to your site. Because when someone is searching for a topic he would like to click on that particular topic which matches his search words and/or interest him/her the most and not your blog title, because most of them may not be knowing it. But if your blog title appears first then the visitors may skip your site! So, to take the proper benefits we have to optimize our blog so that post titles shows before blog title in search results. That's why we should use them effectively.

If you are interested in Showing Blogger Post Title First on Search Engine, follow the steps below:

How To Change The Post Titles:

1.Go to Template>edit HTML in your Blogger dashboard.

By using Ctrl+F, search for the following code in your template’s: 

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

2.Replace this tag with the following code:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'> <title><data:blog.title/></title>

<b:else/>

<title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title> </b:if>

3.Save your template and you should see the results in your web browser as depicted in the images below.

4.It may take a few days for the changes to show up on the google search results. I guarantee you that you will start receiving more traffic from google once you are re-indexed!