Whenever we search for something in WordPress search box, it will give us a page with very unfriendly search URL. This kind of URL is not SEO friendly. There is a plug-in that solves this problem.

For example, when you search for "How to Make Money Online".

This WordPress plugin turns your search URL from:

http://www.domain.com/?s=how+to+make+money+online

into

http://www.domain.com/search/how+to+make+money+online

This plugin converts (%20) and space character into plus sign (+), making your search URL more readable and good for Search Engine Optimization.

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By default, Blogger BlogSpot will take your title as follow:

Your blog name: Your blog title

This is not Search Engine Optimization (SEO) friendly. When people look at your title in search engine result pages, they see your blog title first. If your title is too long, they don’t see your post title since search engine will truncate it. As a result, they don’t click on your link. You lose your visitors. So, to make your title friendly, you have to modify your blog title.

1. Login to your account --> Design --> Edit HTML
2. Click on "Download Full Template" to backup your template.
3. Check "Expand Widget Templates"
4. Search for

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

5. Replace it as follow

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
  <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:else/>
  <title><data:blog.pageName/>: <data:blog.title/></title>
</b:if>

This code will make your blog title as follow

Your blogs post : Your blog title

Alternatively, you can do it manually to have your custom title, replace the above code as bellow. Remember to change all the red color in the following code appropriate:

  <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
    <title>Your home page title</title> 
  <b:else/>
    <b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://www.blogsmonetize.com/2010/11/get-listed-in-google-search-engine.html"'> 
     <title>The title for the above URL</title> 
    </b:if>
     <b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://www.blogsmonetize.com/2010/11/backlink-on-copy-and-paste.html"'>
      <title>The title for the above URL</title> 
     </b:if> 
  </b:if>

Your site will be ranking better in the Search Engine Result Page when you do this.

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Have you ever seen exact copies words by words of your content on another websites with no backlink to your site? The answer is most likely to be "yes".

Requesting every of them to remove the stolen content is time consuming. Why not try to give them a link back when they copy and paste your articles?

There is a tool called Tynt Insight which can add a link back to your original source with every copy and paste. It will ensure you get credit for your work, drives new visitors back to your site and improves your SEO results.

To have this tool install on your website, go to Tynt and register for an account, then copy their script and past it in the <head> tag of your website. After you done so, try to test your script by copying and pasting your article. You will see a link back at the end of your copied articles.

Hope this helps you.

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Canonical link is used to prevent duplicate content on your site in search engine result page. It will improve your search engine ranking. Normally, your site can be accessed via multiple links. For example,

http://www.blogsmonetize.com/
http://blogsmonetize.com/
http://www.blogsmonetize.com/index.html
http://www.blogsmonetize.com/index.htm

Even though, all these 4 links point to the same location, but search engine sees it as 4 different webpages. Thus, they will index all 4 different links in the search engine, as a result of duplicate content, search engine may penalize your site.

Having a canonical link tag in the header of your webpage will prevent this problem. The canonical link tag will tell the search engine to index only 1 address that you prefer to index. The structure of this tag as follow

<link rel="canonical" href="your prefer  link  here" />

So, for my homepage, it looks like this

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.blogsmonetize.com/"  />

How to create a canonical link for Blogger BlogSpot

If your template has the following code, that meant you already have it.

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

If you don't have it, all you have to do is to put the above code  in your <head> tag

If you don't want to use above code. You can use the following code. They both do the same. However, the above code gives you more information about your site.

<link rel='canonical' expr:href='data:blog.url'/>

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When using the internet, we often share the webpage to friends. When the URL address is too long, it may cause problem. For example, in Twitter, we are only allowed to have 140 character per message. Thus, making the URL shorter is essential.

There are so many URL shortener service available on the internet. These services reduce the long URL into a very short URL. Bit.ly shortener is a best free URL shortening service in my opinion. This is my favorite one.

Bit.ly is the most popular and reliable shortener service on the internet. Using this service, you can check the statistic of your URL. It has a very nice statistic graph. Moreover, there are  so many applications that use this service as a default service in their applications such as addthis. They also provide apikey. If you are a developer, you can implement this service in your program easy. With these great features, I recommend you to use it.

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