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How to customize URL on blogger posts for SEO

Hi! You are welcome to this blog where I will show you how to customize URL on Blogger posts for SEO.

In Blogger, the options to customize your post URL is very limited in editor. That means you can’t customize your Blogger posts URL like the WordPress URL as I have mentioned it in my other post about Blogger and WordPress pros and consÂ
No matter how you tried to edit it the URL link will come with a date immediately after the domain name and followed by the post keywords and ending with “html”.
Fortunately, for now there are very good options to increase the search engine optimization for your posts that is only if are willing to customize blogger posts URL and take risk of editing your HTML codes.
This is by customizing the post keywords section of the URL. Secondly, by removing the date on blogger post URL. Thirdly, removing the blogspot from your main domain name.
Now if the post you want to customize keywords on URL is already published and it’s already doing well on the SERP. I recommend you leave it like that so you don’t hot it’s seo performance.
Or if you are already getting back links for the post don’t edit anything on the post because you will loose all the current back links for the post.
Now let us see how to customize URL on blogger posts to improve your blog’s SEO.

How to Customize URL on blogger posts for SEO

1, editing keywords on blogger post URL

 

Step 1
Go to blogger.com and sign-in using your info like Gmail account and password.
From the drop down menu select the blog you want to customize keywords on blogger post URL.
Using the side bar menu navigate to “posts”

 

Step 2

 

For published post

 

Revert the post to draft.
And click edit on the post to customize the post keywords section on it’s URL.
For a post that is on draft

 

Just click edit to continue.

 

For a new post

 

Click add a new post to continue.

 

Now you should be able to access the post editor by clicking edit or add a new post.

 

For a new post put your title including your keywords and write your content.

 

For old drafted post edit it where necessary.

 

Step 3

 

Click”settings” on the editor and scroll down to “permalinks” and click on the links to bring a drop down options.
Click on “custom permalink” and a small bar will open where you will add your target keywords.

 

Add your target keywords and save the changes. You can now publish your post or if you want to remove the date on the post URL. You can leave it on draft.

 

How to Customize URL on blogger posts for SEO

 

 

2, remove date on the Blogger post URL

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Warning!
This step is not recommended for old blogs because it will totally affect your SEO.

 

Step 1

 

Sign-in to Blogger and select your blog from the drop down menu.

 

Step 2

 

Navigate to “themes” from the sidebar menu.

 

Click the arrow under/beside “customize” and from the drop-down list click “edit HTML”

 

Copy the following codes and place it immediately above

The code ain’t ready!

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For a mean time search “how to remove date on blogger URL” on Google. I believe you will find one.

 

Preview the blog using the menu within the HTML page. If the preview is successful that means you have done it right but if it is not right it will fail to preview and will show you some error message. So if it is successful save the changes if it is not successful revert the changes to draft to not cause any issues on your HTML which will hot your blog too.
I recommend you backup your blog before going through this process.

 

After saving your codes it is done.

 

Remember this will remove date from all the posts from your blog. That means any post you have published or are publishing or are yet to publish there will be no more date on their URL anymore.

How to Customize URL on blogger posts for SEO

3, remove blogspot from the main domain name

To remove the blogspot from your URLs their are no options for that accept to buy a custom domain.
You need to subscribe for a custom domain in order to eliminate the yourdomain.blogspot.com from your URL. To yourdomain.com

 

That’s all for now. If you have followed me back to back then must have learned how to customize URL on blogger posts for SEO.

 

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