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Adding Meta Tags to Blogger Blogspot Blog

Posted By Zeeshan On 4:25 PM

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In this post it is explained how to Add Meta Tags to Blogger blogspot blogs to improve SEO .Blogger Templates do not have  built in Meta tags where you can enter Meta Tags. So if you have blog on Blogger.com then you should add the Meta Tags to your blog. Now the first question is what are the meta tags.

What are the META Tags

Meta Tags are the Html Tags or you can say Html codes which are read by robot or spider of search engines and retrieve important information through these Meta Tags. Initially Spiders give extreme importance to some of these tags e.g Meta Keywords but with the advancement in the algorithms of robots and spiders some of them become less important but still its important to add them. There are different type of Meta Tags :
  • Meta keywords
  • Meta Description
  • Meta Owner
  • Meta Author
  • Meta Distribution
  • Meta Copyright
  • Meta HTTP-EQUIV
  • Meta Revisit-after
  • Meta Expires
  • Meta reply-to
  • Meta Rating
  • Meta Refresh
  • Meta Content-Language
  • Meta Content-Type
Only first two are important for Blogger.com. Meta Description  gives the description of web page and Meta Keyword gives the important keywords for the pages. You can add these two tags for home or main page of your blog by little tweak to Blogger template. So before moving further in this post you should write what would be the best description for your blog and what's the most important keywords for your blog as you have to insert this information in steps ahead.
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Adding Meta Description and Meta Keyword to improve SEO for Blogger

  To add Meta Description and Meta keyword follow simple step:

1. Log in to Blogger account.
2. Go to Html tab and save your template for precaution.
3. Now Check the Expand Template Widget Box.
4. Find These code lines which will be near the top of the template code.

<head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

5.Now Paste code rite after the code line given at Sr.4

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>

<meta content='Place your blog description here' name='description'/>

<meta content='Place your blog keywords here(separated by commas)'

name='keywords'/>

</b:if>

6. Write your Blog description at Place your blog description here.
7. Write your blog keywords at Place your blog keywords here.
8. Limit your blog description to 150 words and limit your keyword to 200 words. 
 
Save the template and meta tags has been added to your blog and you can check this by going to any Meta Tag Analyzer on the web, you can find many of them by searching through Google.By adding Meta Tags (Meta Description Tag and Meta Keyword Tag ) you can improve your Blogger blogspot blog SEO tremendously.

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mind
August 12, 2010 at 8:38 PM

thx for the simple tips...now it work for me...have a nice day ya:)

SEO Traffic Spider
August 13, 2010 at 12:33 PM

Nice information.Thanks for sharing..

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