Tutorial for adding meta description, keywords and title in blogger blogs.

By default blogger use same meta keywords and description for all pages (home page and post page). This description is added through the tag <$BlogMetaData$> in you template.

Here is a small tutorial for adding dynamic meta tags and meta data in your blogger blog (blog hosted on blogger.com).

This tutorial is for the classic templates in blogger blog. To confirm that your blog has classic template, look for the <$BlogMetaData$> tag in the starting of your blog template. If you find it then its classic template. else its a new widget type template.

To create a dynamic meta data add following code just above the <$BlogMetaData$> tag.

<mainpage><title><$BlogTitle$></title></mainpage>
<ArchivePage><title><$BlogPageTitle$> Archive</title></ArchivePage>
<itempage><title><blogger><$BlogItemTitle$></blogger> - <$BlogTitle$></title></itempage>


<meta name="keywords" content="<ItemPage> <Blogger><$BlogItemTitle$></Blogger>,</ItemPage> <ArchivePage><Blogger><$BlogItemTitle$>, </Blogger></ArchivePage><$BlogTitle$>, keyword1, keyword2, keyword3" />


<MainPage><meta name="description" content="<$BlogDescription$>" /></MainPage>
<ArchivePage><meta name="description" content="<$BlogPageTitle$> Archive, <$BlogDescription$>" /></ArchivePage>
<ItemPage><meta name="description" content="<Blogger><$BlogItemTitle$></Blogger> - <$BlogTitle$>" /></ItemPage>


This code gives you a dynamic meta data. By dynamic meta data I mean different keywords and description for your main page and each post page.

Meta Title:
For home page it will be your blog title. For archives page it will be page title ( like blog title with archive moth etc.) and for post page it will be the title of your post.

Meta Description:
For Home page it will be same as the description you have filled for your blog. For archives page it will be same as archives title and for post page it will be the title of post.

Meta keywords:
with the code above, you can insert the desired keywords. Also the words from the post title will also be included in the keywords of each post page.

After saving the changes in you template you can check the meta data with the help of this tool.
http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-engines/metatag-analyzer.html

Just use the URL of you home page and then any post page to see the difference.

felt like sharing it with other DP members.
I hope it works for you.
Will try soon to post the trick for widget template in blogger blogs.

 

That should prove to be helpful to others around who are using blogger. Nice post.

 

can i remove this line? after adding this code.

<title><$BlogPageTitle$></title>

 

Yes remove that line after adding that code.

 

" <meta name="keywords" content="<ItemPage> <Blogger><$BlogItemTitle$></Blogger>,</ItemPage> <ArchivePage><Blogger><$BlogItemTitle$>, </Blogger></ArchivePage><$BlogTitle$>, keyword1, keyword2, keyword3" /> "

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if i will write

keyword1 = abc

keyword2 = 123

keyword3 =xyz

then abc ,123,xyz apiar in all the pages (mens it's common for aall pages?)

 

arpitagarwal82

Just what I've been looking for.

Would you mind writing a guest blog post about how to SEO the meta tags for blogger? You can add a link to your blog in return.

Drop me a PM if your interested

Darren

 

Yes Dhaval. keywords which you put there will appear in all the pages. But the keywords from post title will appear first. The trick is to use the keywords of your blogpost in post title.

Sure Darren. But I can do it after two days.

 

Is there anyway to do this for the new blogger?

 

i think this meta code for classic blogger, nothing loose to try..