CREATE METATAGS
The easiest way to create metatags is to type the words "Metatag generator" in a Google search box and hit Enter key on Keyboard. Select any Online Metatag generator and fill in the fields for Description, Keywords and Robots and the code will be generated for you. If you want your name to appear in Google search add the author metatag also.
WHERE TO PASTE CODE
Copy and paste the Tags code below into your Template on Edit Html subtab of Template tab after your </TITLE> and before your </HEAD> tags. Add a slash "/" at the end of each tag like this :
<META CONTENT='FOLLOW,INDEX' NAME='robots'/>
Otherwise you will get the following error :
"Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The element type "META" must be terminated by the matching end-tag ""."
ROBOTS METATAG
The ROBOTS METATAG is used to instruct the search engine spiders whether to INDEX this site so that it appears in Google search results. It also instructs them to FOLLOW the links on this site so as to index linked sites and pass on the Google Juice. If you do not wish your blog to appear in the Google search pages choose NOINDEX option.
ROBOTS TEXT
The ROBOTS.TXT file contains the default sitemap for your blog. It is to be found at :
http://YOURBLOGNAME.blogspot.com/robots.txt
It cannot be edited at present. If you have a private blog or a blog under review for spam, OR if you have Settings--->Publishing---->Send Pings--->NO it will look like this :
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /
In a Public blog this file will look like this :
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Sitemap: http://BLOGNAME/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated
VERIFICATION METATAG
Add the Google Verification Mettag by going to Google Webmasters Sitemap Click on Add Site button after pasting your blog URL or link in the text field. Click on Verify Your site link and click drop down arrow next to 'Choose Verification Method' and select "Add Metatag". The mettag code is generated. Copy and paste it to your Template on Edit Html subtab of Template tab after your </TITLE> and before your </HEAD> tags. Save Template. Back on the Google Webmasters Siemaps page click the Verify button.
YAHOO AUTHENTICATION METATAG
Next add the Yahoo Authentication Metatag.
21 comments:
Thank you so much for your article on mega tags. I was trying to add them to my blog, but I kept getting an error message. I searched high and low and your blog was the only one that I found that told me to add the /. Problem solved! Thank you so much.
Jodie
http://jpetals.blogspot.com
Thanks, I needed this.
Hi, I added the / as you recod but still failing to add metatag. On my Google template, head is before title. Do I need to add my title into the metatag as well? Also, I am receiving the error message open quotationg for content. Thanks!
Ax,
Have a look at :
Error Messages in Blogger Templates
Hi Vin,
Thx for the explanation.
The problem I have at the moment are related with the description Meta tag.
Like almost all of us noobs I have a description meta tag in my header but I discovered recently that Google webmaster tools is not so fond on this, which results in the duplicate meta tag warnings.
So far the only solution I can think of is to remove the meta tag description from the template, which will result in the fact that Google will use a snippet as description.
Any ideas on this?
Thx,
Dremeber
Dremeber,
Which of your blogs are you talking about? Give the blog address.
Where are you getting duplicate metatag warning?
Hi Vin,
The url is dremeber.blogspot.com.
The duplicate MetaTag warning is displayed in the google Webmaster Tools. Then under Diagnostics -> Content Analysis -> Meta description issues.
This is caused because blogger uses the same template and related to this the description tag for all pages. The google spider finds it suspicious that one description is used for many pages.
Thx,
Dremeber
Dremeber,
I don't think that can be avoided as in Blogger there is only one metatag for all the pages.
Google's guidelines say that in such cases they are less likely to display it.
Note that they do not say that they will not display it at all.
It seems to be more a question of displaying the snippet. There is no problem with the returning the search results.
This appears to be a new feature and probably they may soon introduce a fix for Blogger!
Hi,
From what i know google blogger no need to add the robots text cause already build in,is it true ?
sk,
Exactly what I said in above post!
:-)
Hi,
Thanks for your reply.
My friend told me that we can use meta description tag (not meta keyword tag) in blogger,i have no idea about that.
Is it benefit to blogger.
sk,
A meta description tag is useful because when Google shows your site in search results it displays what you added in that metatag.
I'm using a very hacked up 2-col template with your "add 3rd column". I also added a TOC with a hack to eliminate the 25 post limit...that may have been a mistake. Anyway, I deleted the META Description too because anytime one of my posts showed up in Google, it would have the post name but META description of the site. Mistake?
Thanks for all your great help in the past and the hacks. And for your responsiveness!
Sincerely, Larry
Mr Umloadingzone,
Blogger presently does not have separate metatags for each page. Do not delete the description metatag or the first few sentences on the page will show up on the SERPs.
Hi Vin: My blog is at http://sharonlynnwilliams.blogspot.com I followed your suggestions for meta tags and generated that code and inserted it in my html just before Variable Definitions. The black page background of my blog is now white, although I did not change anything there. I tried to change the background colour to another colour, but it remains white. How can I revert to the original black background? I am an artist with paintings on the blog and they look so much better on the black background!
Sharon
Hi again: Forgot to ask- do I post the robots text into the html also, and if so, where?
Thanks
Sharon -http;//sharonlynnwilliams.blogspot.com
Sharon,
Have a look at How to Submit Site to Google?
Sharon,
To change the background color to black go to Layout---->Pick New Template---->Choose Minima Black Template---->Save. Clear cache and view blog.
How do I edit my robots/txt? It has a line in it that seems to prevent public access?
Noindex: /feedReaderJson
How do I edit my robots.txt file?It has a line that appears to prevent public access:
Noindex: /feedReaderJsonrobots.txt
Herc,
That file cannot be edited. This is what it contains :
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Noindex: /feedReaderJson
Sitemap: http://hercs-taxblog.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?orderby=updated
This is same in all blogs. Check out :
http://MYBLOG.blogspot.com/robots.txt
Replace the CAPS with the name of any working blog and check out the link. It prevents the indexing of duplicate content of labels and JSONfeed.
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