How To Easily Add Meta Description Tags in Blogger

We cannot overlook Meta Description Tag when we talk about SEO of a Blog. It is a short sentence of 150 to 160 characters which appears just below the post's title in Search results. In this post you'll learn to add meta description tag in Blogger. First of all you need to enable custom robots header tags. Otherwise, this tutorial is useless for you.

Why To Add Meta Description Tags in Blogger?

As you know, meta tags are very necessary for better search engine optimization. Meta description is one of those important tags which should be installed in your website or Blog. These are only for search engines and are added in head tag of your webpage. Therefore, they cannot be seen by users but search engines robots can see them.
Add Meta Description Tag in Blogger

Adding Meta Description in Blogger

  • Go to Blogger and sign in.
  • Go to Settings>>Search Preferences
  • Here you have to go to Meta Tags>>Description, it will ask you to enable search description. You have to click on Yes.
  • In the text box, you have to write meta description.
Adding Meta description
You can also use meta description code in your blogger template But the above way is easy. Anyway, my duty is to tell you both ways.
  • Go to Blogger>>Template>>Edit html
  • Search for <head> by using CTRL+F
  • Just below it paste the following piece of code
<meta name="description" content="Your Description Here.">
  • Replace Your Description Here with your desired description.
  • Click on Save button.
  • That's it.

Add Meta Description to each post separately

  • In the right side bar of blogger post editor, you'll see search description option. Click on it.
  • Now, just write description and click on Done button.
Adding Meta description to individual posts

Tips To Write an SEO Friendly Description


  1. Write description of 140 to 150 characters.
  2. Use your important keywords in it.
  3. Keep this reality in mind that you are writing it for search engines to help them easily understand the content of page.

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Final Words From The Editor

So, this was a short tutorial and I hope, you find this helpful for you. If there is any question in your mind or you want to share something with all readers, don't hesitate to use comment section.