STEPS TO AVOID DUPLICATE ARCHIVE DATA BEING INDEXED BY THE SEARCH ENGINES.

Step 1: Under Layout tab – click Edit HTML
Step 2: The following information must be copied in the template directly below the < head > command, starting on a new line.
Step 3: Save the Template

< b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"' >
< meta content='noindex,follow' name='robots'/ >
< /b:if>
< b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"' >
< meta content='index,follow' name='robots'/ >
< /b:if>
< b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"' >
< meta content='index,follow' name='robots'/ >
< /b:if >

STEPS TO ADD GOOGLE ANAYLTICS TO YOUR BLOG.

Step 1: Log into your Google Account.
Step 2: Go To http://www.google.com/analytics/
Step 3: Click sign up now link
Step 4: Enter Google Userid and PW
Step 5: Click Sign Up button
Step 6: Enter blog.yoururladdress.com in the Website URL field.
Step 7: Account name will prefill when you click on the empty field – leave as it is prefilled.
Step 8: Enter correct time zone and click CONTINUE
Step 9: Enter Contact Information and click CONTINUE
Step 10: Click check box “YES” to AGREE TO TERMS and then Create New Account
Step 11: highlight the “code” in the box above – make sure you highlight all of it. CTRL – C to put in memory.
Step 12: Open NOTEPAD by clicking START (bottom left corner of screen) then choose ALL PROGRAMS, then choose ACCESSORIES, then choose NOTEPAD
Step 13: Place your cursor Inside the NOTEPAD window and CTRL – V to copy in the code that you have in memory.
Step 14: Place your cursor at the end of each line and press delete – so the code has no remaining carriage returns and is all on 1 line.
Step 15: Highlight this line of code and CTRL – C to place it in memory.

Now LOG into your Blogger Account.

Step 16: Click Settings – then click formatting – scroll down to the section Post Template
Step 17: Click inside this box and on a blank link CTRL – V to place it in this file.
Step 18: Click Save Settings

< span style="font-weight:bold;" > Steps to set TITLE command for Defined SEO < /span >

Step 1: Under Layout tab – click Edit HTML
Step 2: Scroll through till you find the following Code in the Template.

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


Step 3: Replace the text you located in Step 2 with the text in the block below.

< b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"' >
< title > < data:blog.title/ > < /title >
< b:else/ >
< title > < data:blog.pageName/> < /title >
< /b:if >

Google Blogger Templates < /span>
You may choose to have your host customize and develop a matching template for your site, though you do have an option of browsing online for free templates you may use with your blog.

Here is just one we found with many different options:

http://www.eblogtemplates.com/templates/blogger-templates/

You can always go to Google and search for Blog Templates and see what you might find that would fit if you are leaning away from a custom blog template solution.