Ideally the post title should appear before the blog name to have better search engine rankings.

Its a simple and important SEO tip that can really improve your blog's chances of showing in search results for the relevant keywords.

However, Blogger shows the blog name first and then the title of your post, which is not SEO-friendly. Even if you have customised your blogger template or using third-party templates you would need to insert this code in your Html.

Go to Design--Edit Html and look for this line of code -

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

Replace it with this code and save the changes -

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

Now you can check the post title format on top of your browser, it has changed to only the post or page title.

In case you want this format - post title + blog name - then add the below code instead of the one above and save the changes.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'> <title><data:blog.title/></title> <b:else/> <title><data:blog.pageName/> | <data:blog.title/></title> </b:if>

This small SEO tip will definitely improve your search engine rankings.

Women's Secret is a 2 column blogger skin designed by Ipietoon. Its a nice template to use for a beauty, lifestyle, fashion, or a personal diary blog.
The template has a simple and clean layout, and features a nice, chic header image where you can add your blog title, and below is the menu bar to show your categories. In the main post area the headline appears in the center along with author name, date stamp and comments and the categories show up at the end of the post.

The single column on the right can be customised to add different blogger widgets. The template also uses a lovely font for the titles. If you like this template
Download the Women's Secret Blogger Theme

Personas is an lovely photography theme designed by Dzignine. Its a 4 column template with a nice underwater background image and thumbnail display of posts.
The theme includes a horizontal menu bar on top, followed by the huge header image. While the main post area is in grid format and shows images with headline and number of comments. Each post needs to have an image for the thumbnails to display neatly and the image will be automatically resized.

The 4 column footer space can be used to put up different blogger widgets like Recent posts, Archives etc. Overall, Personas is a suitable theme for a portfolio or photo blog.

Download the Personas Photo Blog Template