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Improve your SEO with this one very easy trick!

Oooh I just discovered an awesome SEO tip - make sure your outbound links open in a new tab, rather in the same one. If Google sees people clicking away from your blog a lot, you lose SEO points. But if a click opens in a new tab, the window with your blog in it stays open longer, thereby improving your SEO. Fortunately this is a really easy thing to implement!

How I did this on Blogger...

1. Go into your Template page and choose the option to Edit HTML.

2. Find where it says <head> at the beginning.

3. Directly below that, put in this code:
<base target='_new' />

4. Now whenever you click on any outbound link on your blog (a link that links to somewhere besides your own site) and it'll automatically open in another tab!
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  1. My Name is JACYSeptember 1, 2012 at 8:50 AM

    WOW! THANK YOU FOR THIS! I'll have to do this!

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  2. Jenn @ My Not So Glamorous LifeSeptember 1, 2012 at 9:45 AM

    AND, I hate when I'm on someones blog, and I click the link and lose their page. Then I have to go back to it to finish reading, instead of being able to toggle back and forth.

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  3. lettersfromlaunnaSeptember 3, 2012 at 7:47 AM

    I've done this, thanks for the post:)

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  4. KariSeptember 4, 2012 at 11:19 PM

    Done!! Thank you so much for sharing!!

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  5. MelanieSeptember 9, 2012 at 10:07 PM

    What a great tip! I just added it to my blog.

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  6. Woll-MausSeptember 13, 2012 at 3:52 AM

    Great tip! Thank you!

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