W covered the news when earlier this year Google made some SEO specific updates to its blogging service, Blogger. The changes included :
The changes were good and effective and required to be precise, but there was one important area that bloggers were always restricted with. You could dive in with a perfect post content, but had to deal with irregularities sometimes when you wanted the post title to be something descriptive but at the same time not cut short the post url in to something that was useless from a custom search perspective. If you are with us on this, Google finally made things easier. So no longer are you required to make a hack or use any tips and tricks from anywhere.
So until now we the "bloggers had no control over the" url of the post that was constructed
by Blogger service automatically based on the title you gave to the post. The post url or the permalink was there to be dealt with and was permanent without any customization to it. Not so now!
"Custom permalinks give you more control of your blog and posts. These new custom links also provide readers with more information about your post when scanning search results."
The option to the permalink would be available in the right side bar on the post editor for blogger, under the Post Settings; just as the image above. The custom art of the permalink would be only the part that Blogger usually stuffs youur post title in, like for example for this post:
http://www.socialcrunching.in/2012/07/blogger-custom-permalinks-for-posts.html
The bold part in the URL above is what actually is the custom part in the permalink.
While you choose the custom url for the permalink, you will need to select the "Custom URL" option as shown in the image on the left. Then just type what suits your post in the text box. As you type Blogger will try to provide you with the preview of the permalink. In case the permalink that you are trying to create already exists, logger will try to suggest you with whatever free alternatives it may find.
"At present, the characters allowed in a custom URL are limited to: a-z, A-Z, 0-1. The only special characters available are underscore, dash, and period." So obviously spaces are not allowed as some of you may think.
For more information on news and relative links, you may head over here.
- the Meta description option
- a custom 404 page
- the custom robots.txt
- a way to include alt and title tags to your post images
- a way to mark a link as nofollow
The changes were good and effective and required to be precise, but there was one important area that bloggers were always restricted with. You could dive in with a perfect post content, but had to deal with irregularities sometimes when you wanted the post title to be something descriptive but at the same time not cut short the post url in to something that was useless from a custom search perspective. If you are with us on this, Google finally made things easier. So no longer are you required to make a hack or use any tips and tricks from anywhere.
So until now we the "bloggers had no control over the" url of the post that was constructed
The option to the permalink would be available in the right side bar on the post editor for blogger, under the Post Settings; just as the image above. The custom art of the permalink would be only the part that Blogger usually stuffs youur post title in, like for example for this post:
http://www.socialcrunching.in/2012/07/blogger-custom-permalinks-for-posts.html
The bold part in the URL above is what actually is the custom part in the permalink.
"At present, the characters allowed in a custom URL are limited to: a-z, A-Z, 0-1. The only special characters available are underscore, dash, and period." So obviously spaces are not allowed as some of you may think.
For more information on news and relative links, you may head over here.
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