Meta
keywords are very important to do better SEO for your blog.. And you should know
that
Search engines look for different description and keywords for each
page of your site. If you put the same thing across all pages of your
site, search engines may regard this as spam.
I saw lots of examples on
how to add meta title/description based on the post title for Blogger/Blogspot.
but I couldn't find one for using labels/Tags as meta keywords for each
post.
After searching I found [Changing the Blogger Title Tag] which describes how to use the
post title as the header.
although now
that could be done by less code like this
<!-- Post/Archive Page -->
<b:if
cond='data:blog.pageType !=
"index"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
<!-- Index Page -->
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
</b:if>
So instead of using "data:blog.pageTitle" you
use "data:blog.pageName" for post & archive pages. Otherwise, for pages like
index/label pages "data:blog.pageTitle" will do the job.
But as far as I
see at the very brief Blogger documentation.
This is the only way to use labels as meta
keywords..
Enough talking.. Here is the code to do it.. which you
should place instead of the Head tag..!
The Code is commented and it also
outputs the Title and Meta Description tags(using Post title) for your
convenience..
<!--::::::::::: Block1: Output post meta
keywords -->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<b:section id='meta1' showaddelement='no'>
<!-- widget must be a of Type = 'blog' to have posts data exposed, and must have a unique id
-->
<!-- Empty Includables(functions) to output
nothing, You must keep them ): -->
<b:widget
id='Blog2' locked='no' type='Blog'>
<b:includable id='nextprev'/>
<b:includable id='backlinks' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='post' var='post'
/>
<b:includable id='status-message'/>
<b:includable
id='comment-form' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='backlinkDeleteIcon' var='backlink'/>
<b:includable id='postQuickEdit' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='commentDeleteIcon' var='comment'/>
<b:includable id='feedLinks'/>
<b:includable id='feedLinksBody' var='links'/>
<b:includable id='comments' var='post'/>
<b:includable id='main' var='top'><!-- Main
Function of Any widget comes with ID 'main'
-->
<!-- Loop Page Posts (only 1 in a post
page )-->
<b:loop values='data:posts' var='post'>
<b:if cond='data:post.labels'>
<!-- If the
post has labels, make Meta keywords by looping lables
-->
<meta name="keywords"
content="<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'><data:label.name/><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>,</b:if></b:loop>"
/>
</b:if>
</b:loop>
</b:includable>
</b:widget>
</b:section>
</b:if>
<!--::::::::::: Block1 END
-->
<head> <!-- THE HEAD
-->
<!-- must include(called) here to output other
head sub elements -->
<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>
<!--::::::::::: Block2: Output Index Title,keywords,decription and
Post Title,description -->
<!-- Post/Archive Page
-->
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType !=
"index"'>
<title><data:blog.pageName/></title>
<meta name='description' expr:content='data:blog.pageName' />
<!-- Index Page
-->
<b:else/>
<title><data:blog.pageTitle/></title>
<meta name='keywords' content='your,blog,keywords!!'
/>
<meta name='description'
content='your blog description!!' />
</b:if>
<!--::::::::::: Block2 END
-->
Some Issues you
should be aware of ):
1- XHTML
validation will give your warnings about these issues :
- Meta Keywords tag Appears before the Head tag.
Why we have to put that
code before the head tag? you have to ask ):
well.. You can't place a widget
outside of a section, you can't place a section inside head tag. and Post lables
must be called inside of 'Blog' widget.
- Meta Keywords will be surrounded with Div tags which should not appear
there.
why? Cause Widget and sections Tags are auto. converted to div tags by
Blogger..!
2- Some Meta tags
analyzers will warn you that they don't see meta keywords (Cause it was outside
of the head).. But Most search engines would be able to find your meta
keywords..
As you can see
that's why I'm
separating the code into 2 blocks:
first one outside the Head tag to output Post Meta
keywrds.
Second one inside the Head Tag to output Title and meta
description of all pages and meta keywords for index page; without the need of a
widget. And in case an engine didn't like those meta keywords, you still have
the title and description where they should be.
3- After Adding that code , you will get errors
when trying to do anything in the 'Page elements' and clicking save. the Only
solution is cut Block1 from the template & save, do what you need in 'page
elements' & save. paste Block1 back in the template.
It is the only way,
until Blogspot pay attention to the issue!
To edit your Blogspot template
- Go to Layout > Edit HTML > Check 'Expand Widget Templates', and don't
forget to save a backup before you do anything..
- Don't forget to remove those comments.
- Replace those Static Blog meta tags content with real
ones.
Update
#1
I've adjusted the code to show a title in archive page that is
different than index page title. as requested by
Silver
Bullet.
Update
#2
I corrected the code to show different title in label pages. It's
considered as an 'index' page but it has a different title. So, we should give
it a different title! thanks to
GunGz
