Friday 6 January 2012

How to add Meta Tags to Blogger

Blogger is the largest blogging software when it comes to the number of users. However, blogger has some SEO problems which need to be sorted out if you want to increase your blog traffic and visibility in Search engines. One of the major missing features is the absence of the meta tags features in blogger.
A serious blogger must insert Meta Tags in the template to stand out of the tough competition.
What are Meta Tags?
If you do not much about Meta tags, i can only tell you that they are HTML tags that provide additional information about your blog that is unseen by visitors but available to search engines.
Meta tags let search engines know what your blog is all about. In turn, you will achieve high ranking and a high pagerank in your niche.
Meta Tags normally involve 3 most important aspects
Meta Title
Meta description
Meta Keywords
There also also many other meta tags, but for this article, we are going to deal with those there tags.
The meta description tag, for example, provides a short summary of the page content.It lets visitors and search engines what your page or blog is all about. It is normally the summary of the text that appears in search results.
The keyword meta tags show the keywords and keyword phrases a visitor might use to find your blog.They are like sign posts to your blog. These are words which people enter in search results to be directed to your blog.
Because of abuse of meta tags search engines have become smarter and most no longer place emphasis on keywords to establish page ranking however keyword meta tags are still used by some search engines so it is a good idea to include them.
How to put blogger meta tags in a right way
There are many people who have made grave mistakes while adding meta tags. In the end, they found themselves having the same meta descriptions for all their posts which is so problematic.
This means that every entry that Google has for your site will show in search results with the same description. This solution would result in reduced traffic rather than increased traffic.
In order to avoid such confusion, you can use a simple hack which will even make you improve your blogger SEO and traffic.
1. The first step is to Login to Blogger
add Blogger mata tags
2. Navigate to Design > Edit HTML
3. Before you make nay changes to your blog, you should always back up your your template  by downloading full template to your computer.
4. Then, Check the Expand Widget Templates box
5. Then look for the following lines which will be near the top of your template:
<head>
<b:include data=’blog’ name=’all-head-content’/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

6. Paste the following code immediately below <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl’>
<meta content=’Enter your blog description here’ name=’description’/>
<meta content=’Enter your blog keywords here(separated by commas)’
name=’keywords’/>
</b:if>

7. Enter your blog description between the single quote marks under description. The Maximum number of characters is 150. If you enter more, they will be cut short by the search engines and you might lose out on the good words.
8. Enter the keywords of your blog between the single quote marks under keywords. Ensure you separate each keyword or keyword phrase by a comma. The maximum characters for the keywords is 200 characters

1 comments:

katehancock said...

great info

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