A Step by Step Blogger /BlogSpot Meta Tag Installation Guide (Adding Meta Tag to Blogger's Each Post)

Adding META TAG to Blogger/ Blogspot Blogs

Meta Tags- probably one of the most confusing thing to install especially when you don’t know how they works and where they take importance. Installing meta tag is really important because they manage snippet

At the end of this section you would be able to know how to add Meta Tag in blogger, how they work, How to install Robot.Txt in blogger, How to manage blog snippet on search engines pages and auto Meta Tag Installation in each post of Blogger/ BlogSpot.

I could guarantee you at the end of this post you will be able to nail out all the problems relating to Meta tags, even though if you have something else to ask you can leave your query through comments

Before going through the whole process of Meta Tags installation let me introduce what is Meta tags –

What are Meta Tags?

Meta Tags are the Tags written in HTML language within your blog or website template’s script under the HEAD tag, Search spiders use them to find best matching content to visitors keyword. Meta tags are of various types and they all have their own importance. These tags cannot be seen by any of your visitor on blog or website pages, we only use them to help search spiders to find feasible content on web

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Search Engine Optimization in Blogger and How to Operate Robot.Txt-

Here I have given a step by step manual to make your blog adoptable in more efficient way to search bots so please follow all the steps to get the advantage of manual SEO-

Step-1:- SEO for blog post title (Proper Configuration of blog title)

SEO for blog title have its own necessity because it shows appropriate and best matching keywords to crawl perhaps if the blog title appears before the post title it will result in less impressions and less crawl access through search engines. You can configure it by adding a simple HTML script to you head tag.

Here to make this process easy I have given few images, You can see how your Blog title should appear on web-

Let me tell you how to implement this script to your Blog’s HTML, Please follow these steps-

1- Go to Design tab of your blogger dashboard

2- Click on Edit HTML

3- Find this code using Ctrl +F (It is situated under the Head tag of your HTML)

4- Replace this tag with given tag-

5- Now click on save template and see the change

Step-2:- Adding Meta Tags for your blog home page

In this step you need to screw up yourself for taking little precaution before editing, like-

• You can call it Universal meta tag because it will come on all the search results where you have not putted Meta Tag manually in blog URL’s so for to filling a universal meta tag always remember to consider the nature/type of your blog, your visitors keywords that they will use to search you and the steps that I am have written.
• The description meta tag will show on snippet of your blog search so use a catchy language that could give an eye tonic to your visitors to click
• Keywords are not necessary to add but still almost 30% of search engines uses them to give a batter search results so avoiding them would not be a good decision
• Never fill up your meta description and keywords with lots of words or with repeating Keywords otherwise you will be blocked by search bots
• Adding Author Meta tag will give you an aid of advantage because it will help you yo develop your brand entity
• You can add recall tags, language tags and others but except Description, Keywords and Author Meta tag none of them important

How to add a Universal Meta Tag-

1- Go to edit HTML tag as earlier

2- Find- all-head-content’/> using ctrl + F (It is just below the Head Tag)

3- Now paste the following code just below the All head content-

AUTO META TAGS ADDER FOR NEW BLOGGER’s POST-

This tool is simply based on Grease Monkey plugin of Firefox beside this if you have Google Chrome browser it’s available by default in it. You just need to add a simple grease monkey script.

Let me show you how it works-

1- First of all if you are using fire fox please download GREASEMONEY here and With Google chrome you just need to follow next step only

2- Now press your mouse button to Download this script on the given link

3-Now Click install button

4- Now you can see whenever you publish a new post or republish your older post you would have a Meta Tag Adder form in your browser

Add Meta Tags for each older post in once using META TAG GENERATOR

The above given tools are still time consuming with published post but one that you are looking for, that is META TAG GENERATOR will make you able to install meta tags for each bloggers post in once. You can find a big list of such Meta tag generator on my blog

Now copy the generated script paste it before end head tag

Step-4:- Creating/Adding a ROBOT.Txt file in blogger Using Meta Tags

One of the most common issue among us is Robot.Txt errors, as we know BlogSpot is Google hosted platform and we can’t upload a Robot.Txt in it, Google uses its own intelligence to follow and dis follow but still you can helm, it’s possible only using Meta tags.

Please follow the instruction to add robot.txt using META TAGS in your blogger site

1- How to avoid DMOZ Bots in blogger (It is necessary step that you must take to get your manual page description in meta tag)

2- How to allow or disallow and allow Search Spiders

and to allow all search bots-

3- How to add Revisit After Tag (If you want search spider should reconsider your meta as changes on a routine period should be multiple to 7)

4- Beside this you can use chase blocker Meta and lot more but the above given are enough and more important.

Step-5:- A Tiny Tip (Creating an URL Filled With Keyword)

Many of us do this mistake, actually Google bots considers each and every thing to find your pages it could be anything even your URL Too. So to create a healthy URL always tries to release your post with positive keywords. Choosing them depends on you because you know it batter what your visitors are looking for. While you write on blog try to use variance of keywords, for example if you have wrote about Survey so you can use surveying, survey, surveys it will strong the keywords search

Step-6:-PRECAUTIONS THAT YOU SHOULD TAKE-

1- One of the most important thing that I have repeated several time, Never fill description and keywords with lots of keywords and with repeated keywords it will result you a permanent ban of your site from search engines

2- In future if you will need to change your blog theme or template so before doing it takes a copy of your Meta tag otherwise you will lose them. To save them-

· Go to Edit HTML

· Find the HEAD tag to copy your Universal head tag

· Now go to /HEAD tag and copy all the Meta Tag that were generated by AUTO META TAG Adder

· After changing your template paste them as earlier they were

3- Adding DMOZ Robot Dis follow Meta is really important to get a healthy output of all your hard work

4- Search Robots and Spiders takes 3-5 days to show your Meta tag in his search so you do not need to be worry about it.

5- Create a Google Webmasters and Analytics account it will help you in key word research finding errors and will show you all the statistics related to your pages

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