Meta tags are HTML tags that you had to include in the basic template HTML of your blog or site. Inclusion of Meta tags in your HTML will help CRAWL ROBOTS to index your blog in relation to Meta Keywords given. So when someone search with any similar Keyword, then your blog will be on top of Search Engine Results. This will bring more traffic to your site within a shorter period of time.
You may use MetaTag Generator given at the bottom of the Page to develop MetaTags.
Some important Metatags
Title tag
The Page Title is the most important tag for search engine rankings. In certain templates for bloggers, it has been observed that adding this Title Tag inside the Meta showing title errors. In such case you may avoid this Title Tag and use the balance portion.
Description Meta Tag
The Description Meta Tag contain a description of the page, and it is advisable to contain words that are located within the page content. In some templates, Google shows errors in Description showing “ Duplicate Description”. This usually considered as harmless, but you may overcome this by either avoiding this tag or keeping separate description and title tags for each Page ( much difficult task, but I will explain if anyone like to know about this)
Keywords Meta Tag
Select 10 or 12 of the most popular and relevant keywords to that particular page or blog, ideally keyword phrases of 2 to 3 words, separated by a comma. Make sure that the keywords you use are located in the title, description and content of the page. But never copy the same description phrases.You may use Google Analytics in your blog or website to analyze which are the keywords relevant to your blog analyze the power of those key words. Click here to know how to install Google Analytics. ( New Easy Simplified Way)
Author Meta Tag
The Author Meta Tag is used to insert a name of the webmaster or company or the Owner of the blog.
Where to paste and place the Meta Tags?
How to add separate Metatags for each posts?
Benefits of adding separate Metatags:
1. Individual Metatag installation will help to give its own identity to each and every posts in Keyword, description meta elements.
2. If we add common MetaTags to our HTML, then chances are more for Google, to display some “Error” or “Warning” on “Title” and “Description” Metatags. Usually duplicate description issues are not much serious but duplicate title issues are known to be serious. We have some known cases of ban on some sites with huge Title issues.
3. If you add separate “Keywords” for each post, then you can select the most repeated word in that post as your Keyword. This will definitely boost your search engine rankings.
So it is always better to add separate Description and Keywords for each post.
First of all, Sign in to Blogger dashboard » Layout » Edit html. ( Don't forget to download a copy of your HTML as backup ) Now look into the HTML box. Find the <head> portion, with in the first few lines of HTML of your blog. After this < head> portion, just paste the Codes formatted as per direction from Step A and Step B given as below
Step A: Add meta tags to the homepage
Look for this or similar line in that HTML
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
Add the below given code just below this line. You had to change “yourblogname” to your blog name, put real description in the place of “ DESCRIPTION” and Keywords in the place of “ KEYWORDS”.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://yourblogname.blogspot.com/"'>
<meta content='DESCRIPTION' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
Step B: Add meta description for another post,
Now copy the above three lines of codes again and paste just below that code again.Here you had to change “yourblogname” to your post URL, put related description in the place of “ DESCRIPTION” and related Keywords in the place of “ KEYWORDS”.
I will explain more with a post of my blog.
( My blog URL is http://businessvartha.blogspot.com and I am using post URL http://businessvartha.blogspot.com/2009/04/nominate-your-blog-for.html
So, the final code now looks something like
<head>
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://businessvartha.blogspot.com/”>
<meta content='DESCRIPTION' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://businessvartha.blogspot.com/2009/04/nominate -your-blog-for.html">
<meta content='Nominate your blog, Bloggerschoice awards' name='description'/>
<meta content='Nominate, Awards, SEO, Traffic' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
Similarly, you can add MetaTags for all other posts and gain a much improved PageRank.
21 comments:
This is a great post especially for those using blogger blog. :)
Cheers,
Alvin Tan
Hey, many thanks for this very useful and informative post. Actually, I have added meta tags to my blog's homepage but never tried doing it for my posts. Now, I think I can do the same. Thank you so much:)
I will try it in my blog Insurance & Finance. I have tried many similar kind of ideas for blogger but found everyone nothing more than a publicity stunt. Hope this wil work. Thanks
Thankyou Mr Alvin, Aswani and Make money Online and Jason for your comments and suggestions
I use Meta Tags but after reading your write up on Meta Tags, I think I need to learn more from you.
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I think you are expert in SEO. You could make detail explanation.
Thanks a lot...
I am waiting for your update.
Hi there. First I would like to thank you for visiting my blog. To remind you it is the Make Money Online Business which our mutual friend Aswani suggested. I left you an answer there.
Second, this post is great advice for all bloggers that use blogger.com. These are all very important if you wish to rank better on the Search engines results. Knowing this is good but I strongly suggest you take action and get it done.
Thanks again for visiting my blog. I know I will visit yours more often and I just followed you on Twitter
thankyou Forex and travel insurance for your comments
Trying to get votes and traffic to your blog from mine by deceptio? Nice try.
WaiT~ I take it back. ANd I'll vote times a million. Read it wrong! SOrry!
Coming again to your blog.
Learning SEO from this blog.
Waiting for your updation.
good postiing and important am will visit you back again ....well done try to post more i will give you the gift.............
This is a great post regarding metatags. I find them very key to a solid showing in search engines. Thanks for visiting my blog too (http://www.goldenleopard.info) and leaving nice comments.
wow very very helpful post! thanks! thanks for voting for me :D I also voted for you :D more power!
thank you Mr credit , Sav, Bagnas and MJ
Here are two tools which i have created one for extracting the metatags and the other one for generating the metatags
Tools & Scripts :: TU-MetaSpy
http://www.ulhas.net/2009/08/tools-scripts-tu-metaspy-10-released.html
Tools & Scripts :: TU-Metagen
http://www.ulhas.net/2009/08/tools-scripts-tu-metagen-10-released.html
hope you all may like the tools.
Hello Friend,
As per your advice i've changed the meta-tags in my blog. Thank you for this useful information
it is really a gud post....but i hav a doubt....as u hav said tht we hav to put meta tags for indivisual post so if post increases thn i feel it becomes quite diffclt....so i need the solution to it...plzzz hlp...waiting
happy bloggin
hav a gud time... :-)
Dear Satya. in case you are using Blogger as your platform, then no need of individual meta, according to new ranking system by Google. Google bot crawls automatically and lists ur webpage. But if u are using other blogging platforms, then use meta and also u can target other search engines
Thanks Reetha for ur reply.... :-)
This article was soooo helpful. Thanks for posting!
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