Previously I have written on "Why and How to use Meta tags for Search Engine Optimization in Blogger". Now through that method, you can although add meta tags for your entire blog, but not separately for each and every blog post. As you know, Google and other search engines now rank each page (article) separately, so it is very much needed to gain PageRanks for every post you write.
So follow this easy method, to add meta tags and keywords to each of your important post.
Log in to your Blogger.com account and go to "Layout" section.
Then click on "Edit HTML", and then back up your present template first.
Then in the first 10-20 lines, find this :
According to the instructions given in the blue lines, replace them with appropriate lines.
So follow this easy method, to add meta tags and keywords to each of your important post.
Log in to your Blogger.com account and go to "Layout" section.
Then click on "Edit HTML", and then back up your present template first.
Then in the first 10-20 lines, find this :
<head>Now immediately after this code, add these lines:
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://URL_OF_YOUR_NEW_POST.html"'>If you want you can add description and author meta tags too, simple add these two lines along with those above:
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="ENTER_KEYWORDS_SEPARATED_BY_COMMAS" />
<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="INDEX,FOLLOW"/>
</b:if>
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="WRITE DESCRIPTION HERE" />
<META NAME="author" CONTENT="YOUR NAME" />
According to the instructions given in the blue lines, replace them with appropriate lines.
40 comments:
hi multi tag code is not working in my blog spot, can u gve any suggestions
Okay I got the problem, the tags were not closed properly, I have corrected them in the post, now you can add them to your blog successfully.
you means whenever i write post then I will add this code. if yes then the template full of that code and your blog load speed increase. plz help. and explain
Hi Pankaj
Meta tags would not affect the loading speed so much.....
and you do not hav to use them for each and every post, but for those which you think are important !
Regards
Sai
thank for answer, plz help me again actually in google search only blog title is shown not post title. i think i have done wrong with my template. plz help me out
thanks
Hi Pankaj
Welcome back, actually that's not at all a problem, you can check it here, that in Google search even titles from your blog are being displayed:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enIN287IN287&q=site%3Aetaxindia.org&btnG=Search
(Sitemaps and meta tags are just to make sure that your site is being well followed by search engines like Google...)
thanks divya You r genius, divya problem is that my old post title is show by google, but not new post title is shown in google only blog title is shown. for example my post title is
"how to file income tax return" and my blog title is "TAX INDIA" then any earch about how to file income tax return then google show my blog title as TAX INDIA ant then first two line of my post paragraph and as well as url shown by google only main Home page i.e. http://www.etaxindia.org/ inspite of http://www.etaxindia.org/howtofileincometaxreturn.html
plz help me it is very urgent
thanks so much for answering.
Hello pankaj
Only those titles are shown in google, which has been indexed by Google.
Now the frequency of indexing new posts depends on the popularity of the website/blog.
So getting new pages in Google searches is not so easy until and unless the blog is quite famous in google(acc to Google ranking system, the blog should have atleast PageRank 4 or 5, for quick indexing) presently your rank is 0-1.
thanks divya for guide me, actually i am new blogger so you are a teacher for me. thanks
i ibookmarked your blog cause i find it informative. with regards to meta tags for each page...is there any way we can do automatic? like me a bit lazy when it comes to adding meta description and keywords. hope there is.
Hi Lilian
I know this is quite boring and takes some time, but as we on Blogger platform, so we don't have any other option :)
Hi Divya,
In your blog you wrote:
meta NAME='ROBOTS' content='ALL'
What does ALL mean for the robots?
10x
Hi Ivaylo,
that means we are allowing all spiders to index,
Read this tutorial:
Meta Tag Tutorial
Also read this one(in some more detail):
Meta Tags Explained
10x, that was very usefull. :)
You don't actually need those tags though, most searchbots ignore tags like that.
Dude, meta tags are never missed by Google, and as the most preferred search engine is of course Google, so meta tags are important !
do you mind adding examples for each blue line for beginners............
Hi Vikram,
The blue lines are themselves enough I guess,
For ex:
Instead of "ENTER_KEYWORDS_SEPARATED_BY_COMMAS",
use this for a "Bakery related blog"
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="bakery, bread, cookies, sugar, jam, butter, cream........etc." />
Regards
Sai
thanks for your advice
can you kindly tell how to add keywords for differnt post in blogger
http://technofreak-cooldude.blogspot.com
If you are talking about only some of the pages, then use the method described above, replace the blue line from the second code with your keywords,
and if you want top add keywords to all your posts automatically, then read this post:
http://bloggerstop.net/2009/04/dynamic-meta-tags-for-bloggerblogspot.html
Regards
thx a lot for the data i just began trying this individual metas, it was a huge advantage of wordpress blogs against blogger, lets see how it works, i´ll give you feedback...
Hello Arte...
Remember to read this article too:
http://bloggerstop.net/2009/04/duplicate-meta-description-and-titles.html
Google may penalize blogs for duplicate meta tags, so it's important to solve that issue !
wow..what a great article..i've been looking for this article..from a long time ago
Glad to know that buddy !
Hi..
After i edited and saved my HTML to add a specific meta to "about me" page,this message appear in my blog..Template Error: Extra characters at end of string: buf=[=]remainder=[http://earn-bucks-in.blogspot.com...html]:-o
i've try to edited the html,but still can't figure it out.
sory if i always make difficulties for you Sai.:(
Thx.
ups..sorry,it's my bad.
i miss edited the code u've given Sai :)
it's working properly now..
hi
what we should write here = "http://URL_OF_YOUR_NEW_POST.html"
thanks
It is the url (address) of the post, for which you want to add meta tags.
i want to said just word
thank you im apply that method and its work good for my blog
www.startdietnow.blogspot.com
Glad I could help you cheche...
Hi Divya,
Today it is snowing, so this is a good day to work on this hack. I have applied the dynamic metatag hack previously and since I can not paste it here (copy, paste disabled) I will send you my html code in an email.
Just want to make sure that before I add the coding for each post, that I remove the old coding and don't screw up my template.
Stacey @ Home Remedies for Dogs and Cats
Sai, I am finding you to be most helpful and am implementing this trick for posts i really like.
question:
do you add the whole first section above for each url? i can understand adding the url, but since i blog about american idol, most of my keywords are the same. do i need to add these to each individual url add?
also, i don't want the crawlers to think i am duplicating.
thanks! elizabeth
Well yeah, that's important that you should NOT use the same description tag for all your pages, use these tags for only those pages which are already famous or you think which are actually unique across the WWW and so readers will be impressed with that page.
thanks bro......
THanks a lot friend.... please help me to improve my blog rank... blog .Tell me whether all the meta tags are enough or not...pls
I found the other code and now I see how the 'duplicate content' post gets in. I hope that things will soon get better cause it's really bad to see a post almost on first page but with wrong description.
Thanks for the awesome blog!
is there any automatic way to add meta description to each post ?
Yes Zeeshan, that's certainly possible, these are known as Dynamic Meta Tags:
Dynamic Meta Tags For Blogger/BlogSpot Blogs
Allowed HTML tags: <b>, <i> and <a>
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