Choosing a search engine optimized template

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After starting a blog next thing you need to do is select a nice template which is light weight and helps search engines to crawl fast. So strictly speaking about blogger many people dont know the exact influence of selecting older templates. I agree blogger has updated many of its features and one of its main milestone is implementing some advanced templates along with a template designer. But selecting an old template is worth while for getting good search engine rankings.

What I observed among search engines is they usually crawl in the order of page ranks especially Google. And a blog which is 2 months old cant cope up with those rankings. Even if your content is fresh and good you wont make it first but as soon as the same content is copied and pasted by a blog which has a good page rank will be indexed soon. So to sustain such competition is difficult in starting stages and if your blog is too heavy also makes it to be behind many pages in search.

So selecting a light template may slightly make your blog to push little bit forward in search engine rankings.  Only Google always tweaks its algorithms but many search engines like Bing Yahoo still have an old fashioned searches where light weight blogs do have some favor. Of course Google will be the first one to index new blogs. 

So selecting a new template from blogger would make only a slight difference over choosing an old template. But why to give a chance some blogs which are using some older templates of 2006 of blogger are still having a good crawl ability and also ranking good. Some of the blogs like labnol an old blogger based blog's  appearance is awesome in search engines even after 5 years with some of its blogspot posts. Now it is migrated into WordPress as it offers more flexibility and good search engine friendly features.

Still labnol theme is a very light weight this tells us the advantage of light weigh template over a heavy weight one. One more blog which reminds me of such light weight interface is QOT Quick online tips this blog also is a light weight which initially used to be a blogger blog.

How to select older blogger template: 

Thanks to blogger it still gives users to choose from the older templates.

1. You need to click on the design tab.

2. Next you need to click on the edit html tab.

3. As you scroll below you will find an option to select older template.

 

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In new blogger interface Follow these steps

1. Click on template option present in the right side of your blogger dashboard.

2. Scroll to bottom you will find revert to classic template Click on it and you can use the old templates.

 

In new blogger interface 

Which template might be best:

Personally I felt minima is the best template which you can choose because it is plain and you can design it your way. Before the introduction of new template many template designers used to alter their blog templates throught this template only. My blog template is also a modification of minima template. I have copied the style from labnol blog which is a top technology blog of India written by Amit Agarwal. I observed his blogspot template and thought he would have made it from minima I tried and was successful to an extent of course I have altered the color schemes.  So if you want to build a nice search engine optimized blog template my suggestion is use minima.

This blog post is only for people who are serious about traffic but those who love nice latest templates can use it but that would not be a good choice for increasing traffic.

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