How to Add Meta Tags In Blogger

by Ask Zahir on DECEMBER 29, 2014

To get huge traffic in Blogger you must have to add Meta Tags. Meta tag is nothing but a centralized description of a web page. But it is very important to improve search engine ranking. From Meta Tags, crawler/bots can easily find the documents like author, language, country, platform, keywords, description. If you have special niche for your blog, meta keywords and meta description will help you to drive a huge traffic from search engine. In WordPress there are thousands of plugins for meta tag. But, in blogger you have to import manually. See Below for meta tags and a brief description of the meta tag.

<meta content=’Blog Description’ name=’description’/>

This meta tag uses to show a crawler, a brief description of your blog. It’s called as meta description. Remove Blog Description and put your own blog’s description.

<meta content=’KW1, KW2,Keyword3′ name=’keywords’/>

This meta tag uses to push hidden keywords to your blog. Push your keywords in place of KW1, KW2, KW3. You can add unlimited keywords. but remember, 6 or 7 keywords are better SEO. At first make a keyword analysis o your blog then find important keywords for your blog then select and push the meta keywords in your blog.

<meta content=’Author Name’ name=’Author’/>

This meta tag uses for specify the author of the  website/article/post. You can use your name or g+ profile link in the place of Author Name. By this meta tag you can verify authorship on Google+.

<meta content=’G+ Publisher Page URL’ name=’Publisher’/>

This meta tag is uses for verify publisher page at google+. Use your google+ page url at place of G+publisher page URL. This is very important for multi-author author blogs.

<meta content=’Author Email Address’ name=’Email’/>

This meta tag uses for specify a mail address to author. Use your email address in the place of Author Email Address.

<meta content=’index, follow’ name=’robots‘/>

This meta tag specifies the permissions for a crawler or bot. ‘Index’ gives the permission to take the article on the of a search engine. Follow indicates your blog link will be followed. If you want to make your blog  no-follow then use nofollow in the place of follow. But remember it affects site-wide.

<meta content=’Language Name’ name=’language’/>

This meta tag uses for specify the language of your blog. It helps to detect language to translators. Configure it by using your blog language. As an example if you are using US English then it will be looks like this “<meta content=’en-us’ name=’language’/>“.

<meta content=’Country’ name=’country’/>

This meta tag uses for specify the country for your blog. Country meta tag improves your local search ranking. Use your country name in the place of Country.

<meta content=’Engine’ name=’generator’/>

This meta tag specifies the platform you are using for your blog. Use your platform name in the place of Engine. as an Example if you are using Blogger then it should look like this”<meta content=’blogger’ name=’generator’/>“.

<meta name=”copyright” content=”name of owner”>

To protect your text and Images from copying you have to use this meta tag. Use the author name or the publisher name in the place of “name of owner”. Example : <meta name=”copyright” content=”InfoLuv”>.

<meta content=’0;url=http://infoluv.org/’ http-equiv=’refresh’/>

This meta tag uses to redirect your blog to another address. Here 0(zero) indicates the seconds to wait before redirection. Using this meta tag you can create 301 redirection If you want to redirect a specific URL to another URL you have to use conditions. See below for example.

For 301 Redirection:

<meta content=’0;url=http://infoluv.org/’ http-equiv=’refresh’/>

For specific URL:

<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == “http://infoluv.org/abc”‘>
<meta content=’0;url=http://infoluv.org/xyz’ http-equiv=’refresh’/>
</b:if>

Warning !! : This is very harmful without proper use.

How To Add Meta Tags In Blogger

Follow the below steps to add meta tag to a Blogger blog.

• Login to your Blogger Dashboard.
• Go to Templatefrom Left Sidebar.
• Click on “Backup/Restore” from upper right corner.
• Then Click on Download Full Template.
• After completing your download click on Close
• Click on “Edit HTML” button.
• Go to Section. You can search this from Ctrl+F.
• Add Your Meta Tagsafter <head> & before </head>.
• Click on “Save Template” Button.

Congratulation you have done the job. If you want to check your Blogger Meta Tags Click here.

Centralized Meta Tags

<meta content=’Blog Description’ name=’description’/>
<meta content=’Keyword1,Keyword2,Keyword3′ name=’keywords’/>
<meta content=’Author Name’ name=’Author’/>
<meta content=’Author Email Address’ name=’Email’/>
<meta content=’G+ Publisher Page URL’ name=’Publisher’/>
<meta content=’index, follow’ name=’robots’/>
<meta content=’Language Name’ name=’language’/>
<meta content=’Country Name’ name=’country’/>
<meta content=’blogger’ name=’generator’/>
<meta name=”copyright” content=”name of owner”>

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