New Improved Method To Add Meta Tags To You Blogger Blog

Other way you can improve your blog SEO is by adding description and keywords Meta tags. This can be placed inside the head part of your blog template HTML.


In the description Meta tag section you put a description of your blog, telling Search Engines what your blog is all about. While keyword Meta tag you put in key words relevant to your blog content.

Duplicating Meta descriptions (Not Advisable)
In Blogger (blogspot) the Meta tags will not only be located on your homepage but also in every post pages that you create (Posting an article). For instance, you post 100 articles, then all 100 pages (plus 1 for the home page) will share the same meta tags which is not good for 2 reasons:


1. Google uses your Meta description as content snippet in Google SERP (search engine results page). Imagine you have same snippet for all your pages!
2. Google will regard them as duplicate contents (duplicate Meta descriptions).  Google Webmaster Tools will issue a warning if you have duplicate descriptions.

The promising solutions
There are two ways to prevent duplicate Meta descriptions:
Create one set of Meta tags for each page and apply them to their respective page using blog URL conditional tags. Can be done, but impractical -imagine adding 100 sets of Meta and conditional tags in your template!


Limit Meta description tag to homepage only. I choose this method, the lazy easy way! (When there is no Meta description exists in a (post) page, Google will use an excerpt from the post content as search result content snippet).


Adding Your Meta tags, the improved way
Let me explain method no. two Now:


1. First go to Dashboard > Design > Edit HTML and find this line in your blog template HTML codes:
1<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>


2.  Then put the Meta tags code immediately below that line. The final result should be as shown below.

1	<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

2	<meta content='PUT KEYWORDS HERE SEPARATED BY COMMAS'name='keywords'/>

3	<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>

4	<meta content='PUT BLOG DESCRIPTION HERE'name='description'/>

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</b:if>

What this code does is apply the keyword meta tag to all pages and limit description meta tag to only your homepage. www.howtotipsandtrick.blogspot.com


Save the template.


To be sure of your work, Confirm if you’ve entered the Meta tags properly, using an online Meta tag checker.

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