How to Enable Description Meta Tags in Blogger

Blogger finally introduced the most awaited SEO features like Meta Description for individual posts, custom redirection for broken links, no follow attribute, 404 error pages, custom robots.txt and robot header tags for BlogSpot blogs.
Meta description describes the content of your blog or post. It will appear as snippet in search result and as description when you share the post on Google+, Facebook and other social networks.

Enabling And Adding Meta Description To Blogger


  1. Go to Settings > Search preferences > Meta tags > Description and click the Edit link.
  2. Choose "Enable Search Description?" Blogger-Meta-Tag-Discription
  3. Enter the meta description for your blog in no more than 150 characters.
  4. Click Save Changes
    5. Meta description is won't work correctly in custom templates, therefore we need to insert some code inside the template.
    1. Go To Design > Edit HTML
    2. Backup your template
    3. Just below <head> add the following code for meta description 
      <b:if cond='data:blog.metaDescription != &quot;&quot;'>
      <meta expr:content='data:blog.metaDescription' name='description'/>
      </b:if>
    4. Save your template.

    Adding Meta Description To Each Post Or Pages

    Open your Blogger post editor,then you will see a new option for Search description
    blogger_post_search-discription
    Click the Search Description on right side and enter the small description about your post.
    Enjoy !

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