Creating a Blog | A Step-by-step Guide (Part 3)

Meta Tag Codes for Search Engine Recognition:

Meta Tag codes are an important part of your blog. The Meta tag is the way the search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN will know how to read your blog, and index it to the proper spot on their search engines. They are very easy to place on your blog, as I will show below.

1. Copy the following green (and pink) text into a Notepad or Word document and edit it as I will describe below.
   Make sure to leave in the quotation marks.
   (You'll only need to edit the pink text between the quotation marks; i.e., the description and keywords for your blog.)
   
   <meta name="description" content="PLACE A DESCRIPTION FOR YOUR BLOG HERE."/>
<meta name="keywords" content="PLACE KEY WORDS FOR YOUR BLOG HERE WITH A COMMA SEPARATING EACH KEYWORD"/>
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow"/>
<meta name="revisit-after" content="always"/>
<meta name="language" content="english-us"/>
<meta name="distribution" content="GLOBAL"/>
<meta name="rating" content="safe for kids."/>
<meta name="doc-type" content="Public"/>
   
   
2. Between the quotation marks after ‘description –
   insert a brief description of your blog’s subject; try to limit this to 20 words max.
   
   
3. Between the quotation marks after ‘keywords’ –
   add keywords that best fit your blog’s subject. About 4 to 6 keywords should be enough. You can always change these at a later date.
   For the keywords, use dashes between words and use commas to separate each keyword. For example, if your keywords are: ‘favourite animals’, ‘my pets’, ‘dogs’, ‘puppies’, and ‘animal lover’, then it should look like this in the meta tag:
   "favourite-animals,my-pets,dogs,puppies,animal-lover"
   
   
4. Once you have finished editing the Meta Tag you need to insert it into your blog.
   From your dashboard, click on “layout”. (Alternately you can click on “Customise" in the top right-hand corner from your blog.)
   
   
5. Next click on the sub-menu tab “Edit HTML”.
   
   
6. Under the heading “Edit Template” you should now see a page of your HTML code. Copy your Meta Tag and paste it between the line "<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>"
   and the next immediate line "<b:skin><![CDATA[/*".
   
   
7. After you have inserted your meta tag here, click on “Save Template”. You have now added your Meta Tag to your blog.

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