How To Add Meta Description to Blogger using Blogger Settings

Hello brothers! lately, I had published an article regarding adding  Meta Tag Description  via Blogger HTML editor's page. Today, we will show another way of putting it through Blogger Settings. Please follow the very simple steps below.

Also Read: How to Add Meta Tag Description Via Blogger HTML Editor's Page

Adding Meta Description In Your Template In Blogger

Step 1. Go to Blogger Dashboard
Step 2. Click Settings >> Search preferences
Step 3. In the Meta Tags area, click on  Edit then Yes .
Step 4. And then put you blog description inside the box provided and finally click on the "Save Changes" button.

To test if it works, you can use MetaChecker  tool, where you only have to introduce the url of a post or page, click Analyze and then it will show the results, including a complete analysis of keywords, on-page seo , meta tags, URLs, current server status and a rating bar that goes from Horror to Excellent.
If things go smoothly as you did, your blog would already be ready to face a good SEO.

Good Luck Bro ;-)

How to Hide Site/Blog From Google Search Engine Result Page?

Do you want to hide your blog  from Google Search Engine Result Page? Sounds Weird! But for your blog who is designed for private use only, then  this tutorial is the answer! Although displaying your blog in search engine results page (SERP) is important to bring more organic traffic and money on it  but   through Blogger.com settings you can now hide it  by  just following the few easy steps below.

Step 1. Go to Blogger Dashboard
Step 2. Click  Settings >> Basic
Step 3. After clicking the Basic button, click  now the "Edit" link in  your Privacy settings.

Note: There are two settings (which are listed below) under privacy settings with corresponding  "Yes" and "No" options.

1.Add your blog to our listings

A Listed blog may be linked to from Blogger.com, such as the Blogger home page and Next Blog. If you select "No" your blog will not appear in these places, but it will still be available on the Internet. This blog will still be displayed on your profile unless you hide it.

2. Let search engines find your blog

If you select "Yes" blogger will include your blog in Google Blog Search and ping Weblogs.com. If you select "No", everyone can still view your blog but search engines will be instructed not to crawl it. If there are links to your blog from other websites, search engines may still suggest your blog in response to queries.

Check "No"  buttons for both above settings and click "Save changes".
You have now successfully hide (put your blog in a more private settings) from search engines in blogger listings.

How to Add Meta Tag Description In Blogger

To gain huge traffic is  the same with optimizing more your  blog to be more SEO (Search Engine Optimization) friendly. Aside from practicing those basic SEO tips, another important part of a good SEO is the adding of meta tags, which in the same time, are invisible to users visiting the site.They are placed inside the head section of your blog template HTML. Sound weird, to be more specific, these meta tags  help search engine to include information about the page such as author name, date, key word, descriptions, title, and the like.
Have a look with the screenshots below that show one of my post before and after I put meta description in my blogger template.

• Before Putting Meta Tag Description

• After Adding Meta Tag Description

A clear and precise description increases the chances of getting visits or clicks.

Adding Meta Tag In Blogger

Step 1.  Go to Blogger Dashboard >> Design >> Edit HTML codes:
Step 2. Find the code below in your blog template HTML.

<b:include data='blog' name='all-head-content'/>

Step 3.  Just after that line /code above, place the code below,

<meta content='DESCRIPTION HERE' name='description'/>
<meta content='KEYWORDS HERE' name='keywords'/>
<meta content='AUTHOR NAME HERE' name='author'/>

Step 4. Save your Template! and you are done.

Checking your the Meta tag Description Online

Confirm whether you’ve entered the meta tags correctly, using an online meta tag checker.

• Make sure you check at least two pages -home page and one of the post pages.


• Compare the extracted meta information as what I did in one of my post, notice the difference.

Enjoy!

Useful Tips to Keep Your Readers Stay Longer on your Blog

Naturally, all bloggers wanted to become  more popular in their written articles but doing this needs some tricky moves in order to win the hearts of the readers. I believed that high page rank and low bounce rate are the consequences if  we just follow rules on blogging. In this article, I will share to you some useful tips to make your readers busy and like more to your blog.


Tips To Make Readers Stay Longer In Your Blog:

1. Professional Looking Blog. 

A difficult to achieve especially if we are still newbie blogger, since we need to be equipped with using the languages of computer programming like HTML, Javascript and CSS, etc. But don't worry since there are many sites available that share free Blog Template with good looking features.

2. Thought Provoking Post Title

Well, the next thing comes just after the looks is the  post title. Your blog posts title is  the reason why  your readers try to click on it and read your article in the first place. So, it’s up to you  how would you make it catchy and thought provoking. Make your titles create thoughts on their mind.

Also Read: How To Optimize Post Titles to Increase Blog Traffic

3. Images.

Reading blog articles or even books without images attached is confusing since our imagination have no guide of what the author wanted to share with us. Through image content  article will be  completed. Add related and quality images along in your blog posts so that your reader  will know actually what are  you writing for them. But remember to alt  tag  in your images  because it will also  add your ranking in Google images and consequently increase blog traffic.

Recommended for you: How to Add Alt Tag in Blogger Images

4. Quality Video

 Since in our young age, we were fund of  watching TV in our homes and if it is not available, we tend to go our friends or near neighborhood  just to watch our beautiful TV program. In short we love watching videos than to read or hear it.  The same is true in  reading articles in our blog, readers  tend to   to stay more time if they  watch video along in reading our blog's article.  Youtube is the best answer in corporating videos for your sites but there are other sites as well   who can give you this opportunity

Recommended Post:How to Add Link to Your Video In Youtube

5.Internal Linking

Promoting  blog article which are not so high in terms of  pageviews is always part of blogging and to answer this, you should practice internal post linking. If you're writing on Best SEO TIps for Newbie Blogger, you can also connect this article with another post, let us say Bad SEO Tips A Blogger Must Not To Follow. In that way, your readers will be busy reading  more than one  article.  Linking to another posts on your blog is a  Seo practice and  improved page  impressions as well.
Don't Forget to Read: How to add Linkwithin or Related Post Widget in Blogger

6. Ask your Readers to Subscribe to your Regular Post

 This is one way of helping your readers to be updated with your blog post. Your blog subscribers will be notified by mail when you update or post a new article on your blog. Don’t forget to put this   subscribing widget on your blog. I have one on the right sidebar you can put your email address to be updated with my incoming post as well.

7. Be natural in writing

Try to establish an environment that you are just talking your readers in a manner that they will not feel bored or tired. You  can also add mode of being funny. You have to think  that humans will read  your article and therefore you should act  as human too in order to gain the love of your readers.

Hope you like this short article and Enjoy Your Day!

How to protect Adsense Account Against Illegal Activities

Earning money out of  putting Adsense ads in your blog is a big reward of your endless work both day and night and even reach to the point of  sacrificing your time to our loved ones just to achieve such precious amount of money in our pocket. But suddenly due to bad clicks generated by your users or to some unscrupulous people out there may lead to a ban of your Adsense account, even if you're not doing bad on your side.

Here is the situation, Google generates income out of advertisers who wanted to expose their products online.  An elaborately a large network of ads, with which  it earns and also shares some revenue with publishers (people who put up AdSense ads on their websites). With  the utmost trust given by the Advertisers  to Google in deliviring ads on the web, the latter has to make provisions  or guidelines to maintain the trust of these advertisers for them  to ensure that publishers don't play dirty tricks, or use fraudulent methods of clicking on ads to accumulate more money out of advertisers. Logically, advertisers wouldn't like it if they had to pay extra money for clicks that didn't really help them in the business. Such kind of practice of clicking  might result in the ban of your AdSense account. Don't let this thing happen to your blogging career.

Ways you  have to follow to avoid getting banned of  out of Invalid Clicks of your Adsense  Ad

• Never click on your own ads neither encourage anyone to do.


• Always Use Good Adplacement positions i.e don’t place on blank pages or no contents.


• Never place adsense ads on Adult site or other illegal sites.


• Never try to Alter  or change the Original Adsense Code provided to you


• Use White Hat SEO and say NO to Black Hat SEO.


• Monitor the ad clicks if its proportionate with its revenue earned.

If you are getting lots of clicks but a CPC of 0.00$ or 0.001$ only, then they are mostly likely to be invalid clicks. Or having a CTR of 20% or above, perhaps your blog has been bombarded  by someone out there.( Note: There is no exact value of  CTR to be called as invalid, sometimes it will defend on how much traffic you generate to your blog).

• Check  your email at regular basis.
Google will send you emails and notifications in case invalid activity is detected in your site(s). It will let you know about the type of activity, so that you can get to root of the problem. It will also provide you further instructions on getting rid of the invalid activity. 

To learn more on how to safeguard your  Adsense account from invalid clicks or any illegal activities you can visit "Google’s Protection against Invalid Clicks". There you can read How Advertisers Are Protected, How We Help Protect Publishers, and the Detection of Invalid Clicks.

Google Support

If it happened that Google Adsense banned your account you can ask for appeal by using this  new form.
Also try to go to  the  Adsense Academy which Google recently launched which orient beginners and pros alike on the do's and don'ts of AdSense.

 Happy Adsense Earning  Buddies :)

Bad Seo Tips A Blogger Must Not To Follow

I have been sharing in the last few month those best seo tips for a newbie blogger and I believed that those are quiet helpful if you really a goal oriented type of a blogger. Now in this article I will share another SEO Tips but in contrary, I would advise that you should not follow this since these are all bad Seo Tips. I am sharing this to the public concerned in order to guide them not to follow the wrong way of blogging.

List Of Bad Seo Tips That You Should Avoid

• Not Utilizing Proper Keywords in the Post Titles.
Use your  creativeness  to optimize the titles for the keywords that page is targeting. Your target is to try and let the search engine robot know exactly what every single page on your website/blog is about and when it should come up on a search. No doing so is a bad seo strategy. 
• Not Adding More Content or Pages in Your Blog.
Everytime you make an article in a separate page of your blog is like having many branches of your store [i.e. your blog] and it means you let your readers to explore more the every corner of your site. Every other day you should be adding new, unique content to your website .  The more contents you have, the more keywords you can target and the more likely your site will be found in the SERP (Search Engine Results Page). 
• Cheap Link Building Schemes.
I know this is one of the SEO Tips that we must know. It is the same with the saying "Be Always Connected High Fyling People in order to be Like hem Also". Which means that if you want to be a successful Blogger, link your blog/site to those blog (blog having the same niche) which are highly successful also.
• Not Good/Irrelevant Meta Descriptions 
No matter how good is your site in page ranking but the people who will see and click it will not be encouraged to open or click it because your meta desciption (or the first few lines of words that  appear in the SERP is not so intriguing,  your site is then useless! There should be a good coordination with your post title, permalink, keywords, and your description in order to achieve a better result. 
• Keyword Stuffing or Congesting
Having a 6 to 10 rich keywords per is enough to optimize your page. Doing or adding more than to this limit is not good for your page rank.

Your blog is your personal collection of your ideas, be the best in  sharing this to the world by avoiding those bad SEO tips and applying those best SEO tips.
Good LUCK and Happy Blogging Buddies  ;- )