SEO Tip - Custom Blogger Post URL

It's very important for SEO (search engine optimization) to have a meaningful blog post URL in your Blogger or Blogspot blog. Blogger will create a post URL automagically using the post title. So, if my post was titled "My post about iPhone programming", I would see a URL like http://blog.daveworld.net/2011/07/my-post-about-iphone-programming.html.

But sometimes this plan gets thwarted by the length of the title. In fact, if your title is over 40 characters, there's a good chance the URL will be truncated to something that is NOT satisfactorily search engine friendly.

For example, my last blog entry was titled "How To Follow More Than 2000 People on Twitter". You can see it here.

Customize the favicon in your Blogger blog

How do you customize the favicon in your Blogger blog?
Very simple... in your template (Design -> Edit HTML), add the following 2 lines of code just before the closing </head> tag:

<link href='http://path-to-your-icon/favicon.ico' rel='shortcut icon' type='image/x-icon'/>
<link href='http://path-to-your-icon/favicon.ico' rel='icon' type='image/x-icon'/>

Replace path-to-your-icon with the path to your icon ;) For example, mine is at http://www.daveworld.net/favicon.ico.

Important to note:

1. put this just before the </head> tag so it counteracts the auto-generated favicon reference made by Blogger.

2. be sure to include the type='image/x-icon' part, or else this won't work in chrome.

3. Always back up your template first before making changes this way!

And there's that. Thoughts, comments, questions, feedback, criticisms... all welcome here, post below :)