Improve your Blog SEO with Meta tags

Meta tags are HTML codes which gives brief information about a blog. Its very important for any blog or website because it helps increase the traffic of your blog and it gets your blog post indexed by search engines faster.

HOW TO INSERT META TAGS

Steps on how to add meta tags in bloggers blog:
1. Sign in to your blogger dashboard
2. Click Template--> Backup Template
3. Click Edit HTML
4. Search for this code:

5. Now add this code just after the above code
:





6. Now save your template. You have successfully added meta tags to your blog.

Improve Blog SEO by adding post title before blog title

Blog title and post title is an important aspect of search engine optimization(SEO) blogger should consider for his/her blog.
The default blogger template displays blogs title before post title in search engines and thats not good for the SEO of a blog because when a user searches for a particular information on the web like "adding read more feature for blogger", the search result displays the post title and the blog title might not show.

Benefits of placing post title before blog title

1. Your blog becomes search engine friendly.
2. Your blog receives high quality traffic from search engines.
3. Your blog ranking increases.

How to place post title before blog title

1. Sign in to your blogger dashboard
2. Backup your template
3. Go to Template--> Edit HTML
4. Now use ctrl+F search for the below code:
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
5. Replace it with this:
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType=="item"'><br /><title><data:blog.pageName/>|<data:blog.title/><br /></title><br /><b:else/><br /><title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title></b:if>
6. Now click on Save Template and you are done.
NOTE: It will take sometime for search engine like google to crawl your blog. However, you can notice the changes in your browser tab.

ADDING META DESCRIPTION FOR EACH POST IN BLOGGER

1. Login to your Blogger dashboard, click Settings --> Search Preferences.
2. Enable search preferences and add a description for your Blogger blog homepage and save it.
3. Now go to editing section of any posts on your blog and you will notice a Search Description tab like this.


4. Now enter some description for that particular post and save your post.
5. Repeat this process for each of your posts and you are done...

BENEFITS OF ADDING INDIVIDUAL DESCRIPTIONS ON INDIVIDUAL POSTS

1. It increase your posts indexing and crawling rate.
2. Major search engines like Google, Bing,etc. loves blogs which have meta description each post.