I’ve blogged with Blogger for a few years now, and overall it’s worked pretty smoothly, but the post title can be a bit awkward to work with.
You’ll notice that if your post title is particularly long, the resulting URL will get truncated once the post is published to a maximum length of roughly 39 characters. Spaces will be replaced with dashes, stop words like “to”, “and”, “of” will be filtered, and punctuation will be omitted. Principles of SEO demand that blog posts are crafted such that search engines will return links to them as relevant hits for a given search. In addition, it is helpful to make it so that the title is similar to the actual URL of the post.
In a Blogger blog, you can optimize your titles by first deciding on a title which is both meaningful and concise. The title should reflect the content of the post, to make it easier for search engines (particularly Google) to categorize what you’re blogging about, and decide how high up in the search results to place it.
For example, if the title of your post is “How To Make Lots Of Money By Blogging On Random Topics” (which is 54 characters without quotes), try to distill the essence of your post into a title which meets or is under the 39 character limit, perhaps “Make Money Blogging Random Topics” (33 characters) or “How To Make Money Blogging Randomly” (34 characters). Ideally, you want the post title to meet that character limit for Blogger post titles, but sometimes it’s difficult, particularly with stop words and spaces eating of valuable post title real estate.