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1. Now go to your Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML.
2. Find the line below in your HTML.

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

<meta content=' DESCRIPTION HERE ' name='description'/>

<meta content=' KEYWORDS HERE ' name='keywords'/>

<meta content='noodp' name='robots'/>

<meta content='INDEX,FOLLOW' name='Robots'/>

<meta content='3 days' name='revisit-after'/>

Blog load time is a problem to some bloggers and is important for SEO. But relatively new bloggers don't have the idea or the knowledge to maximize their blog load time. So here are some factors to consider and to be implemented to make your blog load time more faster.

Blogging nowadays is getting tough. As it is said, you can't make your blog successful overnight. A lot of factors are to be considered to achieve and have a successful blog. One of the known and very important is SEO.

Optimizing a blog for Search Engines isn't that simple. You have to put in mind that many things matter to SEO. The nature of the content is very important and how it is constructed. But most bloggers are having a hard time when it comes to their blog load time. If you didn't notice, some of the blogs in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page), even in the 1st page are loading too slow that it annoys blog visitors. This sometimes means that even if you have the right content and everything in it to make it on the 1st page of SERP, it is not sure that visitors will read your content because they will close it finding that your blog loads very slowly.

There are really a lot of factors to consider in making your blog load faster. Some will hire a web developer or an SEO expert to optimize their blog but it will cost you a hundred dollar or more. But for blogger with has no budget for hiring an expert, you can just consider some factors that will make your blog load faster. This is very useful for new bloggers and for those that are not knowledgeable about SEO.


Consider These Factors In Making Blog Load Time Faster

Unnecessary gadget - you have to remember that a gadget contributes a lot in the blog load time. The more gadgets you have installed in your blog, the slower your blog load time. Try finding a fast loading free hosted blog for example and see the gadgets installed in that blog, I bet there's only one to three gadgets installed in there and compare it to a slow loading blog. You will surely say that gadgets really contributes on blog load time.

Number of blog post on homepage - as a blog load, it first show you the blog homepage where you can see the published content on that certain blog. By default you can manage to show how any blog post you want to show in the homepage but another thing to remember that it also contribute on the blog load time. The more post you have in your homepage the slower the load time of the blog. You should limit the post shown in your blog homepage with at least one and a maximum of ten.

Compressing the template styling or the CSS - the CSS file of your blog template has a size and you know how size matter when it comes to computers. So compressing it will help a little in making your blog load time faster.

Blog advertising - monetizing a blog is one of the reason for a person to start a blog aside from writing and want to be heard. But if this also contribute to the blog load time. Some advertising networks advertisement loads very slow thus making your blog load tie also slow. So better find and choose an ad network that suits your blog and does not make it load slow.

The above mention factors are just some of the most considered factors in making blog load time faster.

Originally published at Knoji.

Loading the main content first is very important in a blog and in SEO of course. Search engine crawlers (a program or automated script that browses the World Wide Web in a methodical manner in order to provide up to date data to the particular search engine) tend to prioritize the area of the blog that loads first. That's the reason why bloggers find ways to implement this on their blogs.

If you run a blog hosted by blogger, you will want new visitors to see your blog content first before anything else to get them hooked. But sometimes blogger blogs loads the sidebar first before the main content. It's an annoying problem for new blogger that wants to get loyal readers online.

You can fix this problem by just moving some codes in your blog template HTML. If you are not knowledgeable with HTML coding then don't worry because you can just locate the codes via search bar in your browser, that's Ctrl+F. It may take a few tries but you'll get it eventually and load the main content first before anything else in your blog.

Making Blogger Posts Load First Before the Sidebar

First, you need to Login in you account and go to Design then click on Edit HTML. After that locate the code that relates to your blog sidebar in the HTML. By default blogger assign "sidebar-wrapper" for the sidebar content and the area it self. In HTML coding, they call this areas in the blog as sections. Now, use your browser search bar (Ctrl+F) to find that line of code in the template HTML.

After finding the sidebar section in the template HTML, you can now cut the whole section or sidebar-related codes and paste it below the HTML codes related to the main content. That's "main-wrapper" by default in blogger. And make sure to paste the sidebar section below or after the main content section to load the main content first before the sidebar.

Finally, you can save your template HTML after doing the changes by clicking Save Template.


Always remember that the whole section in HTML coding starts with the section wrapper and ends with the matching end tag. The section tag is located on the middle of the section wrapper tag. And don't forget to save a backup of your blog template. You can download it in the backup/restore template section in the Edit HTML page.

Knowledge in HTML coding is very useful when customizing and configuring some areas of your blog. But if you don't have any background about HTML coding, I suggest you try changing and configuring your blog template HTML and you'll get use to it.

Originally published at Knoji.

We can't say that all bloggers starts to blog because he or she just want to earn income from it but eventually a blogger will come to a time where he/she wants to monetize his/her blog. And that's where advertising comes in. a very popular ad network known is the google adsnese but a very sensitive one. You can be a publisher today and loss it by the next day if your not careful enough in handling your account. They are very  strict when it comes to clicks. That is why bloggers find other ways to monetize their blog aside from ad networks and google adsense. Sometimes a banner ad slot could be useful to invite advertisers to advertise in your blog.

Here comes In-text Ad Network, an advertising that utilizes the keywords you have in your posts. Some blogger says that this kind of advertising annoys the log readers and viitors because of the pop-up window every time the reader mouse over a certain word that was used by the ad network. but this mentality was change when it was proven that In-text Ad Network is a good or shall I say a great way of monetizing a certain blog.

Adsense is very compatible with In-text Ad Network and also other advertising network. One of the most popular In-text Ad Network before was Kontera, it is still popular these days but they now have a very competitive rival, Infolinks.

Most bloggers use Kontera before but after trying Infolinks, they now use it permanently in their blog since they found out that Infolinks has better payout per number of clicks. If you didn't notice, ExpertsColumn also use In-text Ad Network and obviously it is Ifolinks.

Haven't use In-text AD Network in your blog? Signup for Infolinks HERE!