Resolve Duplicate Meta Descriptions issue in blogger.

The most common problem in blogger or blogspot blogs is the issue with duplication of meta description tags and page titles.The description tag of your blog which is meant for home page or main page gets copied and is displayed for all pages or posts.Now google and other search engines thinks that your blog is filled with duplicate content which stops new pages from getting indexed.

Due to these issues, search engines like Google and Yahoo may consider your blog as filled with duplicate content and titles, which can confuse their algorithm, and thus may lead to de-indexing or no indexing of your blog.

Resolution Steps :-

1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>click the 'Layout' button


2.Click on the 'Edit HTML' tab

3. Find your meta description tag...

<meta content="GENERAL_DESCRIPTION_HERE" name="description"/>

Now put that tag in an "if" condition, so that it will be displayed ONLY in the HOME PAGE:

<b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'>
<meta content="GENERAL_DESCRIPTION_HERE" name="description"/>
</b:if>

4. Now save the template.

5. Now for duplicate titles, click on the 'Edit HTML' tab

Click on "Expand Widget Templates" and find this below code

<a expr:href='data:comment.url' title='comment permalink'>
<data:comment.timestamp/>
</a>

Replace the entire code with this new code:

<b:if cond='data:post.commentPagingRequired'>
<a expr:href='data:comment.url' title='comment permalink'> <data.comment.timestamp/> </a>
<b:else/>
<a expr:href='data:blog.url + &quot;#&quot; + data:comment.anchorName' title='comment permalink'> <data:comment.timestamp/> </a>
</b:if>

6. Now save the template and relax.

Now within a week or two you will start seeing improvement in your blog indexing.

It will take around 10 - 15 days to get duplicate meta description errors removed from Google.

Enjoy !!!!!

How to add Meta Tags in blogger blog.

The importance of adding Meta Tags to your blogger blog has been well stated here to help you improve your website page rankings.Here you can find a detailed description on how to add Meta Tags to your blogger blogs or any website.

It helps you to get more traffic from search engines like google,yahoo,msn,etc and increase your search engine page rank value.These tags not only describes your site but also informs the search engines what your site is all about.

Meta tags allows search engines to index your web pages more accurately.Meta tags communicate with the search engines and tells more information about your site and make it index correctly and accurately.

You have to add two meta tags to the head section of the template.
First is the Meta Description which describes your site and another.
Second is Meta Keywords which tells about your site keywords.

Here is how to add meta tags to your blogger(blogspot) blog:-

1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>click the 'Layout' button


2.Click on the 'Edit HTML' tab


Here is the code you have to add

<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>

But replace this RED coloured words with your site data.

For example:-

DESCRIPTION HERE : Write your blog description
KEYWORDS : Write the keywords of your blog
AUTHOR NAME : Write the author's name(Your name)

3.Add the above code just after this

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

Your edited HTML code will look like this

4.Don't forget to add description and keywords of your site.

5.Now save the changes.

Add or Submit url to Bing.com - Microsoft's New Search Engine.

Welcome to Microsoft's new Search Engine- Bing.com

Bing is specifically designed to build on the benefits of today’s search engines but begins to move beyond this experience with a new approach to user experience and intuitive tools to help customers make better decisions, focusing initially on four key vertical areas: making a purchase decision, planning a trip, researching a health condition or finding a local business.

You all must be eager to submit your website or blog url to Microsoft's Bing.com to enhance your site traffic and improve search engine page rank.

Here is the url to submit that:-

Microsoft's Bing add url.

Display Post Title before Blog Title in the Title bar (Post Title + Blog Title).

As per the default blogger html code , the blog title is displayed first and then your post title.
Eg:- Blog Title + Post Title.

Lets change the format to (Post Title + Blog Title) which will help the search engine to give better search results from your blog.
This will also help you in enhancing your search engine traffic and improve your blogs page ranking.

Lets follow these simple steps to gain better results from search engine:-

1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>click the 'Layout' button.


2.Click on the 'Edit HTML' tab.


3. Take backup of the template.

4. Find the below code:-

<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>

and replace with below code.

<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/> |<data:blog.title/></title>
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title> </b:if>

5. Save the template.

Now Title bar for each post will display below format:-
Post Title | Blog Title

Remove Subscribe To Post Atoms in blogger.

Find out in 5 simple steps how to remove Subscribe to Post Atoms from blogger blog.
It normally appears at the end of the page and after every post which is viewed individually.

Atom feeds work in a very similar way to RSS, and there is very little difference for either publishers or those who choose to subscribe.On the main pages, this will link to the main site feed, whereas on post pages, this will link to the comments feed for a particular post.


Lets see how this can be achieved:

1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>click the 'Layout' button.



2.Click on the 'Edit HTML' tab


3. Click the 'Expand Widgets Templates' box.



4. Find:

<b:include name='feedLinks'/>

And delete it!

5. Now save the template and Subscribe To Post Atoms is gone from your blog.

Open hyperlink in new tab or window in blogger

These days we post a lot of outside links in blogger.Visitors to your posts click on hyperlinks and new website opens up in the same window.The need of the hour is to open the posted internal links in new window so that the vistor to your post do not lose your webpage.

There's a pretty simple procedure to do that :-

1) Find the hyperlink in edit html of your post.
2) Now add target="_blank" attribute in the 'Edit Html' mode just after the
href="URL of the story" in Blogger editor.
3) Now click on "Publish Post".

Eg:-

original : a href="URL"
modified : a href="URL " target="_blank"

You can also use the same logic for images aswell.

Remove Navbar from blogger blog.

The reasons why I insist all bloggers to remove the navbar in your blogger blog is that
if someone purposely clicks the flags on the Navbar,then you may fall in trouble.
Secondly most bloggers don't like the navbar since it does'nt give their website a required professional look.

Easy steps to remove the navbar in blogger template :-

1.Sign in to your blogger dashboard>click the 'Layout' button.


2.Click on the 'Edit HTML' tab


3 Now search for below line in HTML script

/* Variable definitions

4 Paste following code just above the /* Variable definitions

#navbar-iframe {
display: none !important;
}

5 And save the template.

You are done and the navbar is gone!