Adding Meta tags in Blog or Website is an Important step in SEO(Search Engine Optimization). Many of our followers requested us to write a post on Adding SEO Meta Tags in Blogger Blog. Meta Tags help search engines to get detail about your blog or website with in few lines. This is one of the simplest step of SEO. We can add many Meta Tags in our blog but simplicity is the best policy so less meta tags are better for less errors. Meta Tags change your Blogger Blog ranking from bottom of search results to the top. Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing have crawlers that crawl your blog and index it to Search Engines. crawlers first of all crawl your meta tags and update your Blog info. So today I chose a topic about Adding Meta Tags to Blogger Blogs.
Keywords present in Meta Tags attracts people and search engines to enter to your blog. But there is some limitations in it. It should be related to your blog content. For Example your blog is about Blogging Tricks and your are adding Keywords about Games, search Engine Robots rejects your site. You have not added more keywords and description in Meta Tags. This became keyword stuffing and Google Algorithms will ban your blog. As well as that keywords and description must be at least a specific number of words.
Meta Description
Blog description is small description about your blog. Your Blog description should be in 160 characters. This is best to fit in Google Search Results.Meta Keywords
Keywords should be related with your blog post content to get more and more traffic on your blog form Search Engines. This is one of the basic requirement of SEO. Your Blog keywords must be with in 256 Characters. All Search Engines including Google, Yahoo will crawl your keywords automatically from Meta Tags which have added in your blog template.How to Add Meta Tags in Blogger
Step 1: Login to Blogger Dashboard.Step 2: Go to Template >> Edit HTML
Step 3: Search for <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> in your template.
(Press Ctrl+F for Search).
Step 4: Copy the Following Code and Paste just Below it.
<meta content='YOUR BLOG DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='YOUR BLOG KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='YOUR BLOG AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>
Editing:
- YOUR BLOG DESCRIPTION HERE - Replace this with your blog description (160 characters).
- YOUR BLOG KEYWORDS HERE - Replace with your blog keyboards. (256 characters)
- YOUR BLOG AUTHOR NAME HERE - Replace with your blog author name.
(See Demo Image Here)
Step 5: Click on the Save Template button and you are done..
Congratulations: You have successfully added SEO Meta Tags to your Blog. Surely this will increase your Page Rank in Search Results. Always posts on regular basis with unique content. Focus on Readers Vision, Search Engines automatically make your Blog popular. Because No one is clever than Google Robots.
Still if you have any query about Meta Tags, feel free to comment below.
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i think one can easily add meta description in settings without editing html code.but adding meta tags cannot be done with that.going to add tags and author name as well.
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Yes Hamza you are right but Settings have a limited options for SEO, bot by Meta tags we can add Tags by our own choice upto several numbers.
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