How to fix duplicate meta descriptions issue in blogger blog by adding different meta tag description To Each Post and pages?
Blogger by default adds the same description for home page as well as for all the posts and pages. The meta description and the keywords what we use in the blogger template will be applied for all the posts you publish.
In fact duplicate meta tag description in your blog will have a negative impact on your blogs SERP reputation and the search engine bots may consider the content as duplicate.
All major search engines give importance to the properly used meta tags. For example the meta description tag allows you to convey the description of your page or post in the search engine bots that support the description meta tag. Even though it is not completely known many experts argues that the has no impact on search engines and also that Google ignores the meta description tag and instead will automatically generate its own description for this page.
But as Google says “We frequently prefer to display meta descriptions of pages (when available) because it gives users a clear idea of the URL’s content. ” and also “Using identical or similar descriptions on every page of a site isn’t very helpful when individual pages appear in the web results. ”
So by using different meta description tags for each of your post is good in terms of search engine optimization and meta description tag and proper value for description accurately describe the content of each specific post or page.
Blogger by default creates duplicate Meta Description for all the posts
As we discussed this will create plenty of problems. Since all your posts and home pages have the same description and keywords, there is no other mechanism to accurately describe each specific page or page. Apart from that you will see “Duplicate meta descriptions” HTML issues in your webmaster tools.
How to Add Different Meta Tags for Each Page and Post in Blogspot Blog?
If you know the blogger layout tags then you can easily edit your blogger template to add unique description for your blog post and pages. You can add the title of your page as the description meta tag. There is an excellent tutorial from MyStady that explains about the 7 Blogger Page Types .
Also the Blogger Help topic Widget Tags for Layouts explains how to use use the b:if and b:else tags to display information in blogger templates.
We can utilize these two information to add unique description meta tag to your blogspot posts and pages. The following condition is true for blogspot blog home page.
1 | <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'> |
And the below “if statement” is valid for individual posts.
1 | <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> |
So if we combine the above information you can add a condition to check whether the current page is your blog home page or an item (post) page.
The below code adds unique Title and Description to individual posts.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | <b:if cond='data:blog.url == data:blog.homepageUrl'> <meta content='Home page description' name='description'/> <title> Home page title</title> </b:if> <b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'> <meta expr:content='data:blog.pageName' name='description'/> <title><data:blog.pageName/> : <data:blog.title/></title> </b:if> |
In the above code replace “Home page description” with the description you want to give for home page of your blog. This blogger template hack will resolve the Duplicate Meta Descriptions Issue In Blogger Blogspot blogs. Apart from that this adds unique descriptions for each of your post and pages.
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Thanks Man Its working!
Where on thtemplate do you place the above code???
Towards the top section of the page and inside tag. You will find the meta tags with name "name='description'" and title inside tags
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That's great…
I have used it in my blog. and it is working.
Brilliant! the post title should turn to meta description, I never thought about it, but this post inspire me. Thanks, really!
Great! Thanks for the tip, is it going to improve the number of readers per day (coming from search engines, that is…)?
how do I fix the issue of duplicate meta description for the new blogger ????right now we can enter the meta description for each individual post….so If I get a duplicate meta description for a single page what shall I do ???also I have got duplication issues for meta description for my home page and archive pages, what should I do abt it???plz help !!!!!
@baf4c516a7a80ecbad201a1af17db2df:disqus & @google-903f90a2d94d9df1eef29dcac9bab5a8:disqus : I have the same problem. And with 6+ years of blog archives, it is not a small problem. Any ideas for – specifically – archive pages?