Dynamic Meta Tags for Blogger

The word ‘Meta’ means data-about-data. When we say meta description tag, it describes the contents of the page.This is one of the most important data that Google use to index your site. We can see great results in traffic after implementing it.

Well, The problem with blogspot hosted blogs is that unlike self hosted wordpress blogs, it doesn’t provide any native facility to have meta description tag for each page. So, If you define a meta description tag for your home page it will be replicated for all your pages which would be taken as a duplicate ‘meta-tag’ in Google. With the code below you can have different description tag for each page of your blogspot hosted blog.

  1. Go To layout > Edit HTML
  2. Copy the below code and place it anywhere between and of your blog template.
  3. Replace Put in your common description tags here with suitable description tag for your blog separated by comma. So if your blog is on Web 2.0. The tags can be technology, Web 2.0, making money online
  4. Save template and you’re done.

Food for the geeks— expr:content= ‘data:blog.pageTitle’ gets replaced by the title of your current page. So when combined with the common description tags, the description tag becomes unique for each page.

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