Meta Tags are the basic elements for Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Meta Tags describe contents of you site. They have always been an important element for search engines. That is the reason why it is one thing of HTML that haven’t change in a very long time.
Meta tags can’t be seen by your visitors. They are the words that are hidden in the code. Meta Tags are for search engines. Search engines get summarized idea and keywords of your site with the help of Meta Tags.
Meta tags are typically used to specify page description, keywords and author. They are located inside the html’s head.
<head>Meta tags are located here</head>
Examples:
- Defining keywords of your web page,
<meta name="keywords" content="Blog, Technology, HTML, Photography, Media, SEO, social media, software, mobile application">
- Defining description of your page,
<meta name="description" content="Info on various dominions of media, technology, blogging, photography, research, development, social media, SEO, HTML, software and applications.">
- Describing the author of your page,
<meta name="author" content="Biplav Acharya">
Add a meta description for your blog
Adding a Meta description is pretty straightforward for Blogger powered websites.
• Open your blogger dashboard, click setting, search preferences, and then edit.
• Check the box ‘Yes’ on enable search description.
• Write your description and click save changes
