Blogger XML Meta Description and Keywords Tags

Almost everyone knows how importance the Meta Keywords and Description Tags are in SEO, especialy when we want our blog to be catched from the search engines! There are a lot of Blogger Widgets out there but there is no widget for Meta Tags, is there!?

I did some reasearch about it and came up with some easy mods to optimize the Meta tags for Keywords, Description, Title and even customize for the Index page, post page and archive - nice huh!? Well let's get into it!

By default Blogger gives only the title which is:

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

That piece of code gives the output as the Title of your blog but it is not really enough to have a good 'catch' from the search engines! The mod is made out of 3 sectors: Index (main page), Item page (the individual post page) and Archives.

1. Copy the SEO Blogger Meta Tag Code from below and customize the words according to your Blog criterias before you paste it to the XML Blogger Template:

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "index"'><title><data:blog.title/> : Write some stuff about your blog here not too much since only 60 char robot can read</title>

<meta name='Description' content='Describe your blog here since this is what will be shown if your index page comes in a search' />

<meta name='Keywords' content='Key, Words, Here, Dont, go crazy, only, add, relavent, keyword' /><b:else/>

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "archive"'>

<title><data:blog.title/> : Write some stuff about your blog here not too much since only 60 char is all robot read</title><meta name='Description' content='Describe your blog here since this is what will be shown if your index page comes in a search' />

<meta name='Keywords' content='Add, some, more, key, word, here, but, keep, it, sane ' /><b:else/><b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'><title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

<meta name='Keywords' expr:content='data:blog.pageTitle' />
</b:if></b:if></b:if>

2. Log into your Blogger Account -> Template -> Edit HTML

3. Find <title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> and delete it

4. Paste the new Blogger Meta Tags as seen on the picture below:












5. Finally save the template and you are done !

Also you can check out this post to Avoid making SEO Mistakes and let me know if this made any difference in your result ranking - thanks