Add Meta Description Tags to Blogger

3/25 09:42:00 AM Sunday, March 25

blogger meta tagsMeta Tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a web page. Such tags are placed in the head section of an HTML document and Search Engines might use this data to display the search snippet when they display a page from your blog. Most of the Social Sharing Tools like the Facebook Share or the Google Plus buttons will pick up this meta description to create the snippet which gets shared to the Social Networks.

 

 

How to add Meta Description Tags

Blogger has rolled out an array of SEO features and now adding Meta Tags has become so easy. You can do it easily from the Blogger’s User Interface without doing much of Template Editing or pulling your hair. So here is how to do it

  1. Go to Settings > Search Settings and Enable Meta Tags. In the Text area give a 150 character description which will describe your Blog. This text might be used by Search engines when your Blog’s home page is displayed on Search Engines. Here is the snippet that I have given “
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  • Now when you make a Post, you can set the Meta Description from the Post Editor’s Post Settings  Sidebar.

    You can always edit the Search Description for existing posts as well
  • If you are having a custom template, make sure that the meta tags are rendered by your Blogger Template. To do that go to Template and Proceed to Edit HTML .blogger-edit-html
  • Click somewhere within the Blogger Template Editor and find  
    <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
  • If it's not present, add it just before </head> and click on the Save Template button.

    • 54 comments :

    1. Sumit ranaMarch 25 at 10:19 AM

      not working,thier is no option like this while posting a new post

      1. UnknownMarch 25 at 7:49 PM

        you have to follow step 1 before you jump to step 2. The Search Description Option will come up in the post editor only if you enable Meta Tags(step 1)

    2. Nokia 5800 XpressMusicMarch 25 at 10:26 AM

      Hey i am unable to see option 2 (search desc. for the post) post setting in my editor.

    3. KevinMarch 25 at 10:30 AM

      So does this put the same meta description on each post or can you have different meta descriptions for each post?

    4. Nokia 5800 XpressMusicMarch 25 at 10:34 AM

      ok i think i found it....i didnt activated it from the setting panel...thanks...it will be really helpful..:)

    5. NimsrulesMarch 25 at 10:37 AM

      The new search and SEO options are really great. They're definitely gonna improve the optimization of Blogger sites.

    6. SagarMarch 25 at 12:54 PM

      The code mentioned in step 3 has to come after <head> or after <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/> ?

    7. AnonymousMarch 25 at 1:23 PM

      But the snippet be paste even if the metatag description is added manually to the old way with in WLW inside every single post?

    8. AnonymousMarch 25 at 1:30 PM

      I mean if the snippet is pasted into the HTML (if the meta tag is inserted in a single post with WLWriter). Thanks

    9. UnknownMarch 25 at 3:07 PM

      Great work, Thanks

    10. WallpapersmythMarch 25 at 4:46 PM

      was looking for this Snippet!
      Thank you :)

    11. AnonymousMarch 25 at 4:49 PM

      nice information i will use this on my blog:

    12. Shadow GamerMarch 25 at 7:26 PM

      hey may i know why the extra code is needed? is it to improve, or to fix a bug?

      1. UnknownMarch 25 at 7:43 PM

        I too feel the same. The meta tag should have been rendered automatically without the need for any Template modifications. I have asked the same in the Blogger Dev Group and am waiting for a response for the same.

      2. Shadow GamerMarch 25 at 7:52 PM

        ohhh i see, cool. keep up with the good work :D

      3. UnknownApril 6 at 11:29 AM

        and that feature is now live. post has been updated :-). You can now delete the code that you might have added. Blogger now automatically adds the meta tag and itemscope tags to your Blog.

    13. Sushil KumarMarch 25 at 8:45 PM

      i have a question that if we have custom theme for blog then these settings implemented automatically or we have to add it manually…..

    14. Arham SukardiMarch 26 at 9:09 AM

      How many characters in meta description for better SEO?

    15. cmsforever.ruMarch 27 at 9:56 AM

      Do you know how to create meta description to labels pages?

      search/label/label_name

      Thank you

    16. AnonymousMarch 27 at 10:00 AM

      and title

    17. Sufala PendurkarMarch 29 at 7:55 AM

      The post is nice but i stuck in step 3. I did not found Edit Html button enable for my Template . is it because of i am using Dynamic Template if that so then how do i enter snippet which u have given ????

    18. AnonymousApril 2 at 6:40 PM

      Thank you !

    19. DonnyApril 4 at 3:46 PM

      Great work dude

    20. SamApril 5 at 8:58 PM

      right now this code does not required.

      1. UnknownApril 6 at 11:16 AM

        yea you are right, the meta description tags and schema tags get rendered automatically from all-head-content b:includable. This was a request placed on the Dev Forum, and I'm glad that it's finally live :)

    21. UnknownApril 6 at 10:49 AM

      Did this on my blog. Thanks!

    22. UnknownApril 7 at 6:56 PM

      Asian Fashion ;)

    23. CDADApril 8 at 3:51 AM

      One of my blogs has an Artisteer template. Has the code before tag head, but at the posts don´t appears nothing...

    24. Maia TApril 12 at 5:37 PM

      Thanks for this.
      I have a question though: the meta description looks the same in the source code as manually inserted. I was expecting to see the microdata in the markup, as you mention above but there is none.
      Another, maybe off topic question but related somehow:
      I would like to use microdata in the markup for images, for the +snippet. I've read the documentation but never seen it live on Blogger.

      Would you consider to write a tutorial about this, if possible?

      Many thanks for all your reliable tutorials.

    25. UnknownApril 12 at 9:39 PM

      Can I remove the line: from blogger html?

    26. Michael LengApril 16 at 1:16 PM

      Great information for improvement blog SEO

    27. W LApril 18 at 10:51 PM

      This is for individual posts. How do we give a search description to labels in blogger?

    28. AzulnautaApril 19 at 4:31 AM

      I read somewere that we should add the following code:

      b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != ""'>
      meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
      </b:if

      to make sure the meta tags appear, but here you told to just make sure we have b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/

      I'm confused :|

      1. UnknownApril 21 at 5:33 PM

        well right now, blogger renders the meta description tag from blogger's all-head-content b:includable. So you don't have to manually add the code that you have mentioned in the comment. You will get a better idea if you read the other comments on this post(especially the conversation with Shadow Gamer).

    29. Itender RawatApril 26 at 10:35 PM

      I added that code! But i am seeing same description in all the post links in search engines which i added as a main blog description! Is there any code to changes that same blog description to the posts description??

      1. UnknownApril 27 at 9:58 PM

        on which blog? You might have probably added meta description tags manually to your template.

    30. weddingApril 27 at 8:38 PM

      This has really helped me with seo for my wedding speech blogspot web site. Great information for the blogger improvement of seo updates..

      Thanks! -Tim

    31. FU RONG GEMSApril 30 at 7:26 PM

      Thanks for your good Information, We just found the Search Description...

    32. UnknownMay 2 at 12:28 PM

      I was trying for a long time. But I was failed to identify where to put meta decription. Thanks for your post.

      Reaz

    33. عيون مصرMay 3 at 11:08 PM

      sorry i want to ask a question i have edit my template and added a code that make this function now after blogger update what should i do remove the code that added before to my template or apply the new update from blogger i am afraid to lost my ranking in google search

    34. BenjaminMay 7 at 4:54 PM

      Seriously frustrated about doing searching on how to add meta tags...each time comes with post that described the old interface method. Thanks for the much needed info. It worked for me.

    35. Miss AubreyMay 8 at 4:43 AM

      meta desc tags is so effective seo strategy. thanks for this. <3

    36. CassandraMay 8 at 9:11 AM

      Where should I put the tags?, I am a blogger/blogspot user. Thanks.

    37. AnonymousMay 22 at 12:18 PM

      Really helpful

    38. UnknownMarch 31 at 10:11 AM

      please help me to improve my meta tags? as im getting Duplicate meta descriptions
      error.

    39. AnonymousApril 4 at 1:45 PM

      Nice tutorial, i had tried this it worked.

    40. UnknownMay 7 at 10:55 PM

      superb tutorial. it worked on my blog

    41. AlexMay 16 at 6:04 PM

      Thanks a lot, added the code after a lot of tries and its working finally!

    42. UnknownJune 20 at 9:40 AM

      nice info....

    43. UnknownJuly 24 at 6:19 PM


      very cool sharing.thnx..

    44. UnknownAugust 26 at 11:29 AM

      I need help, I tried to add the option, but it disable by "read more" widget. Can you give me an advice so I can resolve my problem?

      Thank you!

    45. UnknownAugust 28 at 2:06 PM

      I have a problem, when I enable the option, my snippets and excerpts (read more hack) disappear and when I disable the option for meta tags, the excerpts and snippets reappear. Please help me, getting really desperate. Thank you!

    46. UnknownSeptember 20 at 5:12 AM

      i got these all steps :)

    47. BL MOTIVATIONFebruary 19 at 10:21 PM

      works for me !! thank you :D