How to Optimize Blogger Post Titles using H2 Tag

Most of you guys will be aware of Heading tags and for those who don't know what they are; Heading tags are tags which helps search engine bots in differentiating Headings and content. There are different heading tags like h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 and h6, All of them have different value in eyes of search engines. H1 is of highest value which usually means the Title of Post or Blog and as we go down H2, H3...H6 the value keeps decreasing, So it is really important that we use proper tags for different headings.

For example: Post title is usually H1 or H2, Sub Headings are H3, Minor Headings are H4, H5 etc.

Heading Tags play a very important role in a blogs SEO, You can't just ignore them, Search bots pay more attention to the Text between the Heading tag and this helps your content rank high in search results.

Sample Heading Tag: <h1>Heading Tag</h1>

How to Optimize Blogger Post Titles Using H2 Tag

By default, Blogger post titles are H3 which is not good for SEO as H3 tag has low value in search engine eyes as compared to H1 and H2 tags. So to make your blog rank high in search results, You'll have to optimize Blogger Post Title tags, which means you'll have to replace H3 with some other tag with more value (H1 or H2). Normally Post titles of WordPress Blogs are H1, which means higher value. That's why Search Engines rank WordPress blogs high because their titles have more value (h1) as compared to Blogger titles (h3).

Today I'll show you How can you Optimize Blogger Post Titles. We will use H2 tag for Post titles instead of H1 because using H1 is not always good for SEO, So we will play safe and use H2 tags because H2 tags have high value and are good for SEO. However you can also use H1 if you want but I recommend H2.

How to Make Blogger Post Titles H2

Just follow the steps given below to make your Blog Post Titles H2. I recommend that you back up your Template first.

Step 1: Go to Blogger Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML

Step 2: Search for the code given below.

<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h3 class='post-title entry-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>
</b:if>
</b:if>

Step 3: Now replace h3 with h2 and Save Template.

Done, You've successfully changed your Blog Post titles from H3 to H2.

How to Make Blogger Post Titles H1

If you still want your Blog Post Titles to be H1 then you can do it simply by changing H3 to H1 (in above code)

Or just replace the above code with the one given below.

<b:if cond='data:post.title'>
<h1 class='post-title entry-title'>
<b:if cond='data:post.link'>
<a expr:href='data:post.link'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:post.url'>
<a expr:href='data:post.url'><data:post.title/></a>
<b:else/>
<data:post.title/>
</b:if>
</b:if>

So You're Done. This will definitely improve your blog SEO and will make your posts rank high search engines. I hope this article was helpful, Please leave your comments below and let us know if it helped.

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