How to add Meta Tags to Blogger

Add Meta Tags to Blogger for Better SEO

What are Meta Tags?

Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document that provide additional information about your blog that is unseen by visitors but available to search engines. The meta description tag, provides a short summary of the page content. The keyword meta tags show the keywords and keyword phrases a visitor might use to find your blog.

How To Add Meta Tags in Blogger blogs

1-    Login to Blogger if not already logged in

2-    Go to Blogger Dashboard – Design – and click Edit HTML

        For Blogger's new look Go to Template

3-     Click on Edit HTML

4-     Back up your template as a precaution by downloading full template to your computer.

        Check the Expand Widget Templates box

5-     Search(Ctrl+F) for the following code in the header at the top

                      <b:include data=‘blog’ name=‘all-head-content’ />

6-     Now paste the following code right after the above line:

               <meta content=‘ BLOG DESCRIPTION HERE’ name=‘description’ /> 

               <meta content=‘ KEYWORDS HERE’ name=‘keywords’ /> 

              <meta content=‘YOUR NAME’ name=‘author’ /> 

              <meta content=‘ALL’ name=‘ROBOTS’ /> 

              <meta content=‘blogger’ name=‘generator’ />

7-    Save the Template.

Here is a link which helps you to generate Meta Tages online freely