World Of Information Technology: How To Add Meta Description In Every Post In The Blogger

Blogger search preferences section helps the user to make blog more search engine friendly. Well, So today we're going to learn search preference which is Meta Description. In the old interface we were unable to use meta description in each and every post, we only used to add that description to homepage by manually. But now we can add it in every post and page without touching any HTML or XML coding. You just need to enable it from search preferences section.

What is Meta Description and use of it?

Meta description is an HTML or XML element that describes the web page to search engine's crawler. In other words it tells the information about your web page to search engine's crawler so that search engine may provide your web page in search results on proper place. A search engine uses this Meta tag description and keywords for crawler.

Procedure to Enable Meta Tags Search Description in Blogger

When we create blogger at that time it is disable so we'll need to enable it then and only then we can use it. Simply follow the below steps.

Go To Blogger >> Settings >> Search Preferences

Look For Meta Tags Section

Tick "Yes" To Enable It.

Now a box will appear where you have to write your meta tag or description. Make sure that it doesn't exist 150 characters.

Click Save Changes!

Note : The problem is that sometimes custom blogger templates doesn't work with these meta tags but if you are using blogger default template then it's fine. In order to work properly meta tags with custom blogger templates you will need to insert an short XML code in your template which we will solve this issue. Simply follow the below steps.

Go To Blogger >> Template >> Edit HTML Search For <head> and Paste The Following Code Below <head>
<b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != ""'> <meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/> </b:if>
Save Your Template and You have successfully added meta tags for homepage. Now let's jump to next step.

Add Meta Tag Description on Every Post

After enabling meta tags for homepage, Now when you will go to any post editor or create new post, You will see "Search Description" section in the sidebar where you have to simply write your description for that post. This search description section was disabled but after enabling for homepage it is also enable for every post and page.

Write your description for every post in that box and publish it.

Conclusion :

I hope that this article would have helped you in understanding steps of adding meta data description in every post in the blogger. Please share your knowledge if you know more about this attribute. Your feedback and constructive contributions are always welcome.