How to add HTML META tags to your Blogger Blog HTML page

When creating your Blogger blog, you may want your blog content to be easily found by new visitors. Adding meta tags is a simple way to make your blog easily searched by search engines. Adding meta tags to your Blogger blog is also needed to verify you are the owner of your blog.Here are simple steps helping add HTML <META> tags to your blog HTML page.

Step 1: Sign in to your blog
Visit Google Blogspot home page at: http://blogspot.com/ or http://www.blogger.com/ and sign in with your Google account.
Step 2: Go to your chosen blog Dashboard
A Google account can have many blogs. When you sign in to your blog, you are presented with the main dashboard. You can click any link (NEW POSTs, Edit Posts, etc....) under your chosen blog title to go to the dashboard of your chosen blog.

Step 3: Edit Google HMTL page

  • Choose Design / Edit HTML.
  • In the HTML code below, locate the tag <head>
  • Copy and paste your tags below the tag <head>
  • Your tags may look like: <META name ="description" content="your blog description"/> <META name ="keywords" content="list of keywords separated by comma"/>
  • Or tag generated by Google Webmaster Tools to verify you are the owner of your blogger blog:
    <meta content=' Unique code here' name='google-site-verification'/>
  • Or tag generated by Bing Webmaster Tools to verify you are the owner of your blogger blog;
    <meta name="msvalidate.01" content= "Unique code here" />
  • Or tag generated by Yahoo! Site Explorer to verify you are the owner of your blogger blog;
    <meta name="y_key" content=" Unique code here" />
  • Click SAVE TEMPLATE to successfully add HTML <META> tags to your Blogger Blog!

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