The Easiest Way in Creating Permalink as Post Custom URL

Recently, I tried to help spread the good news about Permalink newly introduced by blogger. I assumed you have known it by now, and am sure you enjoyed creating your custom URL for your blog. This time, as I partly discussed this in my recent post, I want to share my technique in creating Permalink easily, without even adding extra task for writing your latest content. Somehow, some people are hesitant to try new, because they thought it's an additional labor, but this time, let's make it lighter.

Creating your Permalink as Post Custom URL for a better blog seo is as easy and instant like clicking the publish button of your blog. Here we go:

Custom URL = Post title = Permalink

That's the easiest formula. Write your title, then formulate your permalink by just replacing spaces to dash. I mentioned that already, this time I will give emphasis to it. You can either use Word document or Word counter tool, it's up to your choice, but I guess am more comfortable with Word document so I will use it.

Writing my title for this post:

The Easiest Way in Creating Permalink as Post Custom URL

That consist of 56 characters including spaces. Remember, our title should not exceed 70 characters.

Writing your Permalink:

The-Easiest-Way-in-Creating-Permalink-as-Post-Custom-URL

What I did is only replace spaces with dashes. The character count remains 56! So, it's ready.

Where to find the Permalink?

Please go to draft.blogger.com, then go to new post, then permalink and choose Custom URL. See image below (click to see the full size).

See you :)

Posted by Editorial Team on 7/02/2012 08:00:00 PM in Custom URL, SEO

Custom Post URL Using Permalink by Blogger to Improve SEO

This post has

• a. discussion/explanation, and
• b. screen shots at the bottom.

Remember when blogger team updated the blogger platform, they made available for all users the upgraded blogger interface, a more friendly dashboard for blogging. Who can forget the new threaded comment? Or the search preferences options? Well, I guess those are highlights. Today, we got an important addition - it's the option for users or bloggers to create a custom post URL for their post with the new Permalink introduced by the team via draft.blogger.com

Autmatic URL vs. Custom URL

• We can easily differentiate, automatic URL is chopped, not a complete one - or it cannot stand on it's one unlike a complete sentence. Not that good. e.g. /how-to-write-faster-maintaining-quality.html
• Custom URL is an URL created by you. Be sure it's targeted, precise, and can tell readers what's your post all about. e.g. /Update-AddThis-Sharing-Tool-to-Include-Pinterest-Button-and-Google-Plus.html
• Use at least 70 characters, just like you write your post title, that includes spaces.
• Substitute spaces with dash - and do not use other special characters or punctuations.

Using Permalink surely adds the work - but this is an important seo updates, so you should mind this. This is not yet added to blogger, this is available for users for "testing" or sort of, it's the time to cooperate with the blogger team so that this would be added to blogger officially. For the time being, access Permalink via draft as provided above.

Quick Tips on How to Create a Custom URL

• Always bear in mind that post title character limit is 70, though you can choose longer. That's the ideal anyway.
• Your Custom post URL is your post title, create a targeted, precise title less or at least 70 characters, your Permalink must consist of text and dash only, though you can use other characters. Dash is used to separate words or text, e.g. Update-AddThis-Sharing-Tool-to-Include-Pinterest-Button-and-Google-Plus
• One way to write your permalink is in an open word document. First, write your title and count characters by highlighting, write clicking on it and going to the bottom left corner of the document that say, e.g. Words:10/10, if you are not familiar, please refer to my post - The Uses and Importance of the Blogger Upgraded Interface Every Blogger Must Know, scroll down at the bottom, or;
  
• Use a Word Counter Tool, I guess this is a lot quicker than the first option. Paste your entire post title here, and it automatically shows the counts of characters, and then replace spaces with dashes, as I shown in the screen shot below (that would be your instant permalink).



• Make it a habit, every time you draft a post, open a word document and craft your title first, count the characters, and if you're convinced with it, in the next line, write your permalink ready for "copy paste" OR use the second option - the word counter tool!


• How to write a good title? Well, precise, descriptive, and always consider using the keyword tool, please refer to my post - How to Find a Keyword for a Better Blog SEO!


• Not the least, if you want to dig more about this, we have a comprehensive tutorial about Permalink, ideal character counts and so on at MBT - Blogger Introduced Permalink Option..., check it out!

Permalink Ready?

It's time to use it as your Custom URL... excited? See screen shot:

Click "Done" and you get the preview of your custom post URL - it is descriptive than the automatic ones:

So? Try it :)

Posted by Editorial Team on 7/01/2012 08:00:00 PM in Blogging Tips, Custom URL, SEO

SEO Tips for Blogs Targeted for Beginners

Blogging can be a challenging hobby when you start learning more in-depth about blogs. If you are a starter all you need to do is check out for more interesting stuff on what really happens in a blog, how they work and what people expect from your blog, etc. Here is a short guidance for you that offer you some interesting simple and basic seo tips for blogs that you can follow being a beginner. Blogging is one of the simplest ways to get you involved into online community to share and learn more to gain knowledge.

Why you need a blog

It is important that you need to start analyzing why you need a blog at the first level. If you wanted to start a blog first decide on what is your goal and decide on the success terms and the motto behind your blog. Blogging can be of any purpose say for business advertising, spread your knowledge, share your opinion and ideas or just for fun. Once you set your goals work on the short/long term goals and start marketing your blog to reach your goal.

Identify your viewers

Your reader is based on your goals, check out who are your potential visitors and decide on the topic you wanted to blog about. Your blog should be related to the theme in terms of design outlooks and informative content that has to reflect your reader’s expectation. Identify your audience expectation and make your blog according to their needs on information.

Maintain stability in your blog freshness

Keep your content articles, design and other information to meet its standard and brand to keep up the popularity of your blog among the audience. Communication standard and your blog’s over all standards have to be perfect in terms of images and other messages you offer. You must create an impression among the audience in such a way that they must visit your blog again and again for more updates and useful stuff. Keep your blog fresh with new posts and frequent updates so that your audience re-visits your blog out of curiosity.

Blogging tools

Install some of the useful blogging tools that are meant for best features and take risk with tools that you install in your blogs for a trial and error correction method. You can include some new plug-ins to your blog to improve your blog’s performance and usage. Potential enhancement helps you to meet your goals on time with the timely response and blog outlooks according to your audience expectations.

Last Words

These are basics, like the food that we eat everyday! Well, every beginner should comply the following to have a better blogging experience. Learn more about SEO at What Is SEO / Search Engine Optimization? at Search Engine Land.

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Posted by Editorial Team on 6/16/2012 08:00:00 PM in Blogging Tips, SEO