How to perfectly add meta tags for blogger blog

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Usually Default Blogger template generate a meta tags for blogger blog/website. But it's not enough for search engine optimization [SEO] for blog and not catch meta data on popular social media like facebook and twitter.

How to add perfectly add meta tags for blogger blog

Meta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured meta data about a web page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document and Search Engines might use this data to display the search snippet when they display a page from your blog. Most of the Social Sharing Tools like the Facebook Share or the Google Plus buttons will pick up this meta description to create the snippet which gets shared to the Social Networks.

Why needs to meta tags?

The biggest reason behind it, is lack of blogger (author) to robots communication. Robots crawl data from your website, only when your meta data allow them to crawl. So, Each template should be configured with proper meta tags to give proper response to bots on crawling.

Features

Seach Engine Optimization [SEO]
Description same as in Settings --> Search preferences
Archive pages are not indexed in Search Engine.
Rating content according to age
Revisit time - 1 day ( you can change it accordingly )
Language tag - en-us
Country meta tag
configured for google authorship markup

How add Meta Tag in Blogger

Simply Login to your Blogger Dashboard and navigate to your blog Template Design Option
Go to Blogger Editor Option : Template --) Edit HTML and Go to head section , Now erase/remove all previous meta tags and replace with newer meta tag. It's given below-

<!-- Meta Tags ~ www.digitalhubin.com  -->
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
  <meta content='blog description for homepage' name='description'/>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> - <data:blog.title/></title>
<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != &quot;&quot;'>
<meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
</b:if>
</b:if>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;archive&quot;'>
<meta content='noindex, nofollow' name='robots'/>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;index&quot;'>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content='keywords1,keywords2,keywords3,keywords (blog key words for homepage)' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='index, follow' name='robots'/>
</b:if>
<b:else/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageTitle != data:blog.title'>
<meta content='keywords1,keywords2,keywords3,keywords (blog keywords for post item)' name='keywords'/>
</b:if>
</b:if>

<meta charset='UTF-8'/>

<!-- Define Mobile View tags ~ www.digitalhubinc.com -->  

<b:if cond='data:blog.isMobile'>
<meta content='width=device-width,initial-scale=1.0,minimum-scale=1.0,maximum-scale=1.0' name='viewport'/>
<b:else/>
<meta content='width=1100' name='viewport'/>
</b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == &quot;archive&quot;'>
<meta content='noindex,noarchive' name='robots'/>
</b:if>

<!-- / Define Mobile View tags ~ www.digitalhubinc.com -->  

<meta content='Author Name' name='Author'/>
<meta content='Email deatails' name='Email'/>
<meta content='general' name='rating'/>
<meta content='IN' name='country'/>
<meta content='all' name='audience'/>
<meta content='all' name='robots'/>
<meta content='never' name='expires'/>
<meta content='index, follow' name='robots'/>
<meta content='document' name='resource-type'/>
<meta content='en-us' name='language'/>
<meta content='global' name='distribution'/>
<meta content='1 days' name='revisit'/>
<meta content='1 days' name='revisit-after'/>
<meta content='blogger' name='generator'/>

<!-- Linked Profiles ~ www.digitalhubinc.com -->  

<link href='https://plus.google.com/gplusprofileID' rel='me'/>
<link href='' rel='author'/>
<link href='' rel='publisher'/>

<!-- /Linked Profiles ~ www.digitalhubinc.com -->

How Edit & Use this code

Description - Place Your Home Page Meta Description
Keywords - Place Your Homepage and Page item Meta Keywords as your blog niche
Author - Place Author Name
Email - Place Author email address
Country - Place Your Country Code {Find Your Country Code here...}
Author gplus profile ID replace with your ID.

From Editor Desk

This Meta tag created by a deep research in top and read different SEO blogs then we create this meta codes. Many people always wirte a good quality articles but it always needed to optimize it according to Search Engines that generate a large number of traffic to your site.You can simply apply in your blog as above given steps. Surely your blog seo and traffiic will be increase day by day.
In this meta code add many tags but it is not not necessary to use all these meta tags, you can add or remove meta tags according to your need.

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July 18, 2014