How do I add Meta keyword and description to Blogger posts?
Although wordpress is the most favorite and most recommended blogging Engine of all time, lots of people are still using blogger (Blog*Spot) service to host their blogs. Either because they don’t want to spend money to host their blogs to own server or they just can’t. We all know that there are lots of limits in blogger platform. Personally, I always recommend to use wordpress. WordPress makes it easier to handle all of your contents in a smart environment. Plus, additional third-party extensions (known as Plugins) make it amazing to create and maintain a professional-looking blog. But if you still want to stay with blogger, you might be looking around to know how you can add different meta tag, keyword and descriptions to each of your posts. Okay, here goes the solution.
Be Fresh!
I told you earlier that working with blogger takes lots of ‘useless’ efforts while wordpress does them in just a click. But as your decision is to stay with blogger, you have to work with codes. So, make sure there is no rush in your brain today.
Please be careful! If anything goes wrong, your blog might be harmed. If you’re confused, DO NOT do anything by yourself. Please note that if you accidentally remove any important part of your template, it will result something unexpected to your blog. To avoid all unexpected results, please make sure you keep a backup of your entire template. There is an option in edit HTML page to download a backup. Do it.
Homepage Meta
Go to your blogger blog’s Layout > Edit HTML option. The entire code of the template will be shown. (In wordpress, you will have the ability to choose different part of the theme such as header.php, footer.php, archives.php etc. Why not switch today?) Now, look for the following code. If you’re using Firefox, press CTRL + F and copy-paste the following code to find out quickly. The code sits right after the < head > tag.
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
Now, add the following codes right below this line.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "YOUR BLOG URL GOES HERE"'> <meta content='WRITE DESCRIPION HERE' name='description'/> <meta content='WRITE KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
Save the template. You’ve just added homepage meta content to your blog’s homepage. Now, let’s see how you can add Meta content to your different posts, too.
Posts Meta
Let’s imagine you’ve just published a post and the Permalink of that post is: http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-cash-adsense-cheque.html Now, go to Layout > Edit HTML again and find out the previous codes (Homepage Meta Content) you’ve added before. Now, put the following codes right below your homepage meta content.
<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://yourblog.blogspot.com/2008/05/how-to-cash-adsense-cheque.html"'> <meta content='How to cash AdSense cheque from banks.' name='description'/> <meta content='Adsense,adsense-cheque' name='keywords'/> </b:if>
Once done, save the template. The next time Google bot crawls your blog, the meta content will be indexed along with that particular post. In this way, you can add as many meta contents to as many posts you want. You can even add meta contents to each of your posts.
Disadvantages
Maybe you’re not noticing that you will have to be careful if you’re adding meta contents to your posts. Because,
If you change your template, all the meta contents will be gone. So, keep a backup of homepage and posts’ meta contents.
Plus, you will have to work with codes each time you publish a post. But, Sorry. Since you’re still with blogger, you have to mess up with works that never come to wordpress.
Tips
Here goes some tips to stay careful.
- Always keep a backup of “Meta Contents” only. Maybe in a notepad or WordPad.
- Put some extra space in the template code to separate the meta contents from others in order for you to find out the codes quickly.
- If you change your template, once done, add the meta contents into the right place immediately. Find out the first code again. That always exists in each blogger template.
Teach me right away
If there are alternative ways to add meta contents to each posts on blogger blog, please let me know how. That will help a lot of readers of this blog. Also, if you have any thoughts on blogger, or if you’re a blogger user, let us know how you feel and most importantly, why you’re still in blogger.
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