Blogger Tricks

22 Jun 2012

How To Add Meta Tags To Individual Blogger Posts?

How To Add Meta Tags To Individual Blogger Posts?
Meta Tags To Blogger
We have already seen what Meta tags are and how to add them to Blogger template. Today, we will learn how to add meta tags to Blogger posts. Wordpress rules this part, where Blogger has the limitations of adding meta tags to individual posts. This limitation can be easily overcome by tweaking the Blogger template to some extent to add meta tags to all the Blogger posts.

Note: Please take some time to take backup of your template before proceeding.

Straight to the method:

Step 1. Go to Blogger Dashboard > Select Blog > Template > Edit HTML.



Step 2. Search(Ctrl+F) for <head>
<head> tag can be found in the first few lines of the start of the HTML template.
Immediately after this add the following code:

<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == “http://ANY_POST_URL_TARGETED.html”‘>
<meta content=’YOUR_UNIQUE_POST_DESCRIPTION_HERE’ name=’description’/>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”ADD_UNIQUE_POST_KEYWORDS_SEPARATED_BY_COMMAS_HERE” />
<meta name=”ROBOTS” content=”INDEX,FOLLOW”/>
</b:if>

Note: Repeat the above set of codes for each post you like to target for search engine rankings and better search hits.

Step 3. Save the template. You are done!

Tips: This is a tedious work to add for each and every post on your blogspot bog. Hence target only the posts which are not doing well on the search results. 

What is going to happen after adding separate meta tags to Blogger posts?
1. Search rankings might increase.
2. Overall SEO of the blog and blog posts will raise.
3. Indexing of the pages would be meaningful and better after performing this operations.
4. PageRank for the individual posts would increase.
5. Raise in overall traffic to your site.

Word of Warning
1. Never use the same description for each and every post. This can have reverse effects on your Blog and Blog posts.
2. Don't repeat Keywords within a single meta tag code for a post.
3. Don't overload the template HTML with too many meta tags of all the posts.

Eg:

<b:if cond=’data:blog.url == “http://www.happymanlife.in/2012/06/what-is-rss.html”‘>

<meta content=’About Rss and How to add Rss to Blogger Template’ name=’description’/>
<meta name=”keywords” content=”Rss,how to add rss” />
<meta name=”ROBOTS” content=”INDEX,FOLLOW”/>
</b:if>