ADD META TAGS at Blogspot

Written By Andara on Friday, November 16, 2012 | 11:32 AM

Meta tags are HTML tags that provide additional information about your blog that is unseen by visitors but available to search engines. The blogger usual use meta content for description and keywords.The meta description tag, for example, provides a short summary of the page content. The keyword meta tags show the keywords and keyword phrases a visitor might use to find 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 Add Meta Tags to a Blogger Blogspot Blog Home Page
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:

<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='Place your blog description here' name='description'/>
<meta content='Place your blog keywords here(separated by commas)' 
name='keywords'/>
</b:if>

7. Enter your blog description between the single quote marks under description. Maximum 150 characters

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. Make sure your keywords do not exceed 200 characters

By way of example here are the meta tags I use for the home page of Blog Know How:


<b:if cond='data:blog.url == http://andaras.blogspot.com/'>

<meta content='andaras is a blog having content about my family,tips,tricks, programming ,seo, and lot more' name='description'/>

<meta content='php tutorial, php IDE,php programming, javascript tips,tricks, ajax, jquery, pentaho data integration,eclipse plugin,seo' name='keywords'/>

</b:if>

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