Monday, April 30, 2012

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How to add Meta Tags to your Blogger Blog

Posted On - Monday, April 30, 2012
Meta Tags are very useful and helpful in increasing your Blogs Search engine visibility and the way search engine shows you in its searches.
Meta tags are of several types, here in this tutorial we will add Meta tags for "Description", "Keywords" and "Author". There are other files too, like the robot.txt , but those must not be used because sometimes they have a negative effect on the search engines and search engines might even blacklist you.



So here are some very simple steps to show you how to add these tags into your blog.


1. Login to Blogger if not already logged in

2. Navigate to Design > Edit HTML

3. Back up your template as a precaution by downloading full template to your computer.

4. Check the Expand Widget Templates box

5. Find these lines which will be near the top of your template (Press ctrl+F, and paste <head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> inside the box which slides down near the top-right corner of you browser when you press ctrl+F):
  
<head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> 

<data:blog.pageTitle/>

6. You will see the code highlighted in you template's coding. Now just Paste the following code immediately below <data:blog.pageTitle/>


<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content='DESCRIPTION' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORD' name='keywords'/> <meta content='AUTHOR NAME' name='author'/>
</b:if> 




7. Now just replace, DESCRIPTION with your blog's description (Avoid too long descriptions), KEYWORDS with appropriate keywords related to the type of content on your blog, separated by commas, eg - news, reviews, technology etc
and replace AUTHOR NAME, with your name or your blog's name. And there by we finish with this, now you can see the changes, search engines will show your website along with its description and author's name.


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