Blogger's Meta Tags Configuration for Better SEO

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Do you use blogger? Are you serious about blogging? Make some changes in your blog's code and make it attractive for search engines. Add some Meta Tags in your template's code and you are done.

How to add meta tags?


Simply login to your blogger dashboard, go to  template and edit HTML. Now place the full code given bellow between <head> and </head> tags. And then save the template. If you are still facing problem, email me your template, I'll do the rest. :)

Here is the Full code Sample. All the tags are explained bellow.

<meta name="author" content="AUTHOR NAME" />
<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="BLOG DESCRIPTION GOES HERE" />
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="BLOG MOST INTERESTING KEYWORDS" />
<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="revisit-after" content="2 days" />
<meta name="language" content="en-us" />
<meta name="geo.country" content="COUNTRY SHORT CODE" />
<meta name="geo.placename" content="NAME OF THE PLACE" />
<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" />
<meta name="rating" content="general" />

Lets see what each code means.

<meta name="author" content="AUTHOR NAME" />
Author tag is used to inform a search engine who the author of the blog is.

<meta name="DESCRIPTION" content="BLOG DESCRIPTION GOES HERE" />
Description tag is a brief description about your blog.

<meta name="KEYWORDS" content="BLOG MOST INTERESTING KEYWORDS" />
Keywords tag informs a search engine about the most interesting topics of your blog.
KEYWORD tag is no more used by Google!

<meta name="robots" content="index, follow" />
Robots tag allows search engine to crawl. If you put NOFOLLOW in content field. Your blog'll block search engines for indexing.

<meta name="revisit-after" content="2 days" />
Revisit-after tag asks a search engine to come back in 2 days and index again.

<meta name="language" content="en-us" />
Language tag tells about the language of your blog.

<meta name="geo.country" content="COUNTRY SHORT CODE" />
Geo Country tag tells a search engine about your blog's base country. Ex.: Use IN for India.

<meta name="geo.placename" content="NAME OF THE PLACE" />
Geo Place Name tells a search Engine about the base place of your blog.

<meta name="distribution" content="global" />
This is not important. This tag tells about degree of distribution of your blog.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
Content Type tag tells about your content type.

<meta name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="true" />
This tag disables a feature that only appeared in the IE6 betas.

<meta name="rating" content="general" />
Rating tag says the rate of your page's audience appropriateness. Such as safe for kids or general etc.

I think everything is clear. If you are still confused, please feel free to comment here.

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