How to Add Meta Description Tag to Blogspot Blog

I have been searching for ways to get my blog indexed in Google for sometime that I have been blogging. So I decided to search Google for a long awaited answer to my blogging question.

Then I stumbled on a post on Blogger Tips and Tricks  talking about SEO for Bloggers. Then I found out that adding meta tags to Blogger HTML, can get you more traffic from search engines like Google,Yahoo,Bing,etc. Especially the meta description is the most important one.

Meta tags are the tags which describes your site and tells the search engines what your site is all about.

Adding meta tags is an important factor in SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Meta tags allows search engines to index your web pages more accurately. In other words,Meta tags communicate with the search engines and tells more information about your site and make it index correctly and accurately.

We must add two main meta tags to the head section of the template.One is the Meta description which describes your site and another one is Meta Keywords which tells about your site keywords(what your site is all about)

Here Is How to add Meta Tags to Your Blogspot Blog:
1. Log in to Your Blogger Account

2. Choose the particular blog you want to add the description to

3.Go to "Template" --> "Edit HTML" of your blog.




4. Before clicking on "Edit HTML" Button, make sure you back up your Blogger Template (on the right top corner of your Blogger Dashboard you will find this)

READ: How to Back Up/Restore Your Blogger Blog Template Here

2.Find this code:

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

3.Now add below code just after the above code.

<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>

Look at the example below:

 


Replace,

DESCRIPTION HERE: Write your real blog description
KEYWORDS: Write the keywords of your blog
AUTHOR NAME: Write the author's name(Your name)

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

Happy Blogging!!!