How to Create Meta Tags for Bloggers

Blogger never add Meta Description & Keyword Tags in all your posts? This will sometime lead to decreasing of yours blog traffic or sometime not index in Google. So to solve this problem you have to change yours template code.

As a search engine crawl your site, it takes the information from the Title & Meta Tags such as Description and Keywords. The Meta description should be used to describe the content of your page honestly and concisely and be 1 or 2 sentences, 3 at most.

For this to happen, you have to add some pieces of code to the template.

1. First Sign in to Blogger dashboard » Layout » Edit html
2. Search for <b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
3. Add this code just below that line.

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://bloggertricks.com/"'>
<meta content='DESCRIPTION' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS' name='keywords'/> </b:if> 

Example:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == "http://abc.com"'>
<meta content='Blogger never add Meta tags in all your posts?' name='description'/>
<meta content='meta tag, meta description, meta keyword' name='keywords'/> </b:if>

That’s it! Save and view your work.

After changed of this tag, you’ll see that on post pages, the Meta description and Keyword tag included at the source code of that particular page within the <head> section.

Demo: Check out from here: http://search-engine-optimization-tip.blogspot.com/2011/02/three-common-url-problems.html

Are Shorten URLs SEO friendly?

Shorten URLs SEO Friendly

Shorten URLs will be used especially at Social Media sites to share web pages and interesting links. People are spending hours and hours in front of Facebook, Twitter etc, so URL Shortener services are increasing day by day. Most of people have this question that whether these short URLs are SEO friendly or not.

Usually shorten URLs will redirect to destination URLs. We need to find out whether these redirections are permanent (301) or temporary (302). We have few free tools on the web to check it. Yes, URL Shorten Services are using permanent 301 redirection which is search engine friendly. Please have a look at the following example for better understanding.

Example:

Checked link: http://bit.ly/fZzYtX

Type of Redirect: 301 Moved

Redirected to: http://search-engine-optimization-tip.blogspot.com/2011/02/change-blogger-title-tags.html


You can check out the redirection from here: http://www.internetofficer.com/seo-tool/redirect-check/

Conclusion:  Shorten URLs are permanent redirected & they are search engine friendly as well.

Google Farmer Update – How much damage it can do?

This article on the most recent change to Google’s algorithm, which impacts on websites appear in the organic search.  The article says that although Google makes more than 500 changes a year, this change will definitely be noticed.

Last week Google has made the biggest change in its search algorithm. It affected many websites that depend on Google to drive majority of their traffic. This major change is done to rank quality content higher in Google search results. Particularly pulling down the sites, which have low quality / less original content and are of no use to users. The effect is that users will find sites which wrote the original content. Google says in a blog post on Thursday that these tweaks in the algorithm will affect 12% of its search results.

People give funny names to Google’s algorithm update. Be it “Jagger update” or “Hilltop update” This is called the Google “Farmer Update”. Do you know who gives names to Google algorithm updates? Many people in search marketing world don’t know how Google updates get their names. It all started in 2003 from Webmaster World.