How To Add Meta Tags to Blogger

Meta Tags provide the information about your blog to the search engines. Read some of the definitions of 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. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes”.
wikipedia.org)

“A HTML tag that provides information about the web page. Meta tags may contain information about what the page is about (keywords and description), who wrote the page, when they wrote it and much more. Many search engines use this information when indexing pages”.

(white-hat-web-design.co.uk)

How To Add Meta Tags in Blogger blogs:

1. Go to Blogger Dashboard – Design – and click Edit HTML
2. Search(Ctrl+F) for the following code in the header at the top:
   <b:include data=‘blog’ name=‘all-head-content’ />
3. Now paste the following code right after the above line:
   
   <meta content=‘YOUR BLOG DESCRIPTION HERE’ name=‘description’ />
   <meta content=‘YOUR RELEVANT KEYWORDS HERE’ name=‘keywords’ />
   <meta content=‘YOUR NAME HERE’ name=‘author’ />
   <meta content=‘ALL’ name=‘ROBOTS’ />
   <meta content=‘blogger’ name=‘generator’ />
   If you get the error given below, copy the codes to a text editor (like Notepad), delete all the single quotation marks and type them manually:
   
   
   Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly. XML error message: Open quote is expected for attribute “{1}” associated with an element type “content”.
4. Save the Template.

Hope it worked fine. Drop your comments if not.