Add Meta Tags to Your Blogger Blog
By admin on Feb 17, 2010 with Comments 10
A lot of people are blogging these days for business. They might be using their blog as a means of establishing a web presence, and it’s a great free way to do that. Or they may be using their blog as a marketing tool, advertising sales, specials, new products and services and the like. Many people also sell products or services directly from their blogs too. So blogging can be an important and beneficial tool for almost any business.
No matter what your business-related reason for blogging, good SEO is essential for your blog, just as it is for any other website. And one thing you can do to help improve your blog’s SEO is to add meta tags to the Template. If you aren’t sure how to do that, here are some simple directions for doing so.
NOTE: The content editor in this WordPress site tends to alter things in HTML code and they don’t display correctly on the page. This generally affects apostrophes and quotation marks. When you copy the code below, please retype the apostrophes and quotation marks yourself, before pasting the code in your Blogger template. Otherwise, it may not work. And be sure to work in a plain text document, rather than a word processor like Word or Works, etc. Those programs also tend to reformat HTML code.
- Login to your account at Blogger.
- Click on Layout, and then click on Edit HTML.
- Search for the following bit of code, which will likely be near the top of the template.
<b:include data=’blog’ name=’all-head-content’/>
4. Directly underneath that bit of code, paste the following code:
<meta content=’PUT DESCRIPTION HERE’ name=”description”/>
<meta content=’PUT KEYWORDS HERE’ name=”keywords”/>
<meta content=’PUT AUTHOR NAME HERE’ name=”author”/>
Be sure to replace the content for your Description, Keywords, and Author Name, where indicated. And don’t forget to save your changes.
Thanks so much for this very timely piece of info Tina. I’ve been wondering how to improve the seo for my selling blog!
I knew how to do this with my web site that I closed down, but didn’t want to fool around with the template for my blog.
Would I NEED to put in author name though?
Thanks.
Author name is totally optional, Pam. Feel free to omit that tag.
I tried doing the tgas but got this code:
“Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “content”.”
Not sure what it meant.
Talena…I’m using the exact same code in my blogger blogs with no problems. However, did you read this in my post:
The content editor in this WordPress site tends to alter things in HTML code and they don’t display correctly on the page. This generally affects apostrophes and quotation marks. When you copy the code below, please retype the apostrophes and quotation marks yourself, before pasting the code in your Blogger template. Otherwise, it may not work. And be sure to work in a plain text document, rather than a word processor like Word or Works, etc. Those programs also tend to reformat HTML code.
Chances are you just need to retype the apostrophes and quotation marks in the code before pasting it into your blogger blog…because my WP editor changes the code and it doesn’t display correctly. If you look at my code in my blog post, the apostrophes and quotation marks look slanted the wrong way (backwards). That is because my WP content editor changes them. So just copy the code, type over the apostrophes and quotation marks so that they are not backwards, and then the code should work for you.
ok, I will give it another try. I’ve read so much information from you on blogging. I want to make sure I’m doing everything write. Keep up the great work!
thanks its great working
Thank you! This worked great for one of my blogs.
Glad to know this helped you, Nathan!
Didn’t work for me either… And I tried changing the apostrophes and quotation marks.
Oh shoot…
I had to retype all the apostrophes myself when I used it, but it did work for me on both blogs I used it on. And I helped several OBJ readers do this as well just by retyping all those marks. If you need help, shoot me an email and I I will reply in a plain text email with the exact code you can just copy and paste.